THE man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin Pride attack, which left one person dead and 29 injured, has been shot dead by police during a confrontation in a suburb of the city.

Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed on Sunday following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in central Berlin. 

Mr Ballout was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near the Pride festival night before and then apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamist terror attack.

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the attack had occurred a few hundred yards from a party near the Brandenburg Gate that was supposed to close the festival.

Mr Ballout was tracked down at around 6pm Sunday at a garden in the Spandau district, the city’s police department wrote on X. 

They said he had apparently run towards officers with a sharp instrument and that police had fired at least one shot. He died at the scene.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the attack had “only one purpose: they aim to divide our society. They want to take away from us the most important thing we have, namely our openness and our freedom.”