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Berlin Pride parade called off after car drives into crowd

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⁠A car drove into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebrations on Saturday evening, injuring several ‌people, Berlin police said.

Police said on social media that they were responding with emergency services to an ⁠incident in the city’s central Tiergarten park ‌close to the Brandenburg Gate, where a vehicle had ‌struck multiple people.

“We are searching ⁠intensively ⁠for suspects,” police said.

Hundreds of thousands ‌of people had gathered peacefully in the German ‌capital ‌for the annual Christopher Street ‌Day celebrations, one of Europe’s ⁠largest Pride events, before the incident ended ⁠the festivities.

Emergency services were treating the injured at the ‌scene, police said. ‌The number and severity of injuries were not immediately clear.

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