Berlin police say several injured after car drove into crowd near Pride parade

Hundreds of thousands had come to German capital for Christopher Street Day

Berlin police called off the annual Pride parade in the German capital on Saturday, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured when a car drove into the crowd.

Police, who did not say how many were injured, called on everyone in a post on X to leave the premises of the event immediately. A short while later, police said a car had driven into the Tiergarten park, near the route of the Pride march, hitting several people.

They said they did not know how many officers had been deployed to the scene but that it was "definitely a lot of police."

Hundreds of thousands of people had come to Berlin on Saturday to celebrate at the city's Pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day. It's one of Europe's largest LGBTQ+ celebrations.

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