New Delhi, July 27 -- The suspect in the Berlin Pride event attack was shot dead in a police operation on Sunday, Berlin Police said. One person died, while 29 others were injured after a van drove into a crowd near Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day Pride event in Tiergarten park on Saturday night.

In a post on X on Sunday, police stated that they had localised the suspect at a garden allotment in Spandau on the western outskirts of the city around 6 pm local time.

Police shot at the suspect after he charged at officers while armed with a stabbing weapon, according to the statement.

"Around 6 p.m., the suspect in yesterday's attack in the Grosser Tiergarten was located in an allotment garden facility in #Spandau. According to curr...