Tens of thousands of people are celebrating Christopher Street Day when the alarm goes off at 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 25.
A white van drove into the area at high speed, hit several people and then crashed into a tree.
A woman dies at the scene. 29 people are injured, several seriously.
The driver disappears from the scene, but is quickly identified by police as a man in his 20s, known to be connected to Islamist circles. He is wanted.
On Sunday, he was shot dead in a police operation in a colonial area in the Spandau district of Berlin.
The man is identified as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, whose parents are from Lebanon.
The country's interior minister confirms that it is an Islamist terrorist act.
Germany raises the risk level for terrorist attacks.
