Police shoot dead Berlin Pride van and knife rampage suspect, officials say

Police officers secure the area at an allotment garden complex in the Berlin suburb of Spandau where the man suspected of the attack was shot and killed. Photograph: Christian Mang/Reuters

A man suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival then going on a knife rampage in an Islamist terror attack has been shot dead by police, German officials have said.

Police confirmed on Sunday evening that the chief suspect had been shot dead, reportedly during an operation at an allotment garden complex ⁠in the capital’s Spandau district.