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The Lebanese-German ISIS terrorist who ploughed a vehicle into a Pride parade, killing one and injuring 29 has been shot and killed.
Abdul Ballout rammed a van into a crowd at Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day Pride parade on Saturday.
German media reported on Sunday that the 21-year-old had been shot and killed during a police operation at a garden complex in Spandau, west Berlin.
Police said it was believed he had 'rushed towards our emergency forces with a stabbing weapon, after which police firearms were used by our SEK (Special Operations Command) Berlin'.
A spokesman added that 'despite immediate resuscitation measures' the suspect died at the scene.
The force said it is 'not currently looking for others' in connection with the attack.
Officials had launched a largescale manhunt for the terrorist, who had previously tried to join the Islamic State (IS) group.
Police sources, quoted by German media, said Abdul B, a German citizen, had travelled to Lebanon in 2025 in an unsuccessful attempt to join the IS group.
He had been in pre-trial detention until May 2026, and was ordered to take part in a de-radicalisation programme.
In an update this afternoon, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt confirmed the number of people injured had risen from 16 to 29, three of whom have suffered life-threatening injuries.
He said 'everything we are seeing here indicates that we have experienced an Islamist attack'.
Mr Dobrindt said the suspect 'rammed into a crowd with a car' and 'then attacked the crowd with some type of blade, it might have been a machete, and also severely injured those people'.
The minister said: 'We cannot rule out the possibility that further terrorist attacks might take place.'
Mr Dobrindt added that Abdul B was born in Germany in 2005 and has a Lebanese background. His mother became a naturalised German citizen in 2002.
This May, he was convicted in Germany of 'preparing a serious act of subversive violence,' the papers report, but according to Spiegel news magazine, Abdul B received a suspended sentence.
According to Bild newspaper, he was arrested in Lebanon while attempting to join IS and sent back to Germany as he is a German citizen.
