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Get you up to speed: ‘Mass casualty incident’ declared after van ploughs into crowd at Berlin Pride event | News World
A vehicle drove into a crowd at the Christopher Street Day Pride event, resulting in multiple injuries at Tiergarten Park in Berlin on July 25, 2026. One person has died and 15 others have sustained injuries, with some in critical condition, as police search for the suspect who fled on foot.
Authorities are conducting a major operation in Tiergarten Park, with over 40 emergency services personnel deployed to treat those injured. Investigations are ongoing, and police have yet to confirm whether the incident was deliberately targeted.
German police are conducting a major operation following a mass casualty incident at the Christopher Street Day Pride event, which has now been cancelled, with authorities urging attendees to evacuate. The police stated, “We are searching intensively for suspects,” as one person has died and several others sustained life-threatening injuries.
What remains unclear — Police have not confirmed whether the incident was a deliberate attack on the Pride event.
Van crashes into crowd at Berlin Pride event, leading to mass casualty incident
Several people have been injured at a Pride event in Berlin (Picture: Reuters)
German police are overseeing a ‘major operation’ following a ‘mass casualty incident’ in which a vehicle ploughed into the crowd at an LGBTQ+ event.
At around 10pm, a van drove into crowds ‘at high speed’ before a suspect ‘fled on foot’ and a helicopter was deployed to illuminate the site and search for the individual.
The annual Berlin Pride celebration, Christopher Street Day, has now been cancelled, with authorities urging people to avoid the area and instructing those in attendance to ‘evacuate’.
More than 40 emergency services personnel swarmed the scene to treat the injured at Tiergarten Park, close to the Brandenburg Gate.
At the time of writing, one person who was in a critical condition has died. 15 people have been injured, and some have life-threatening injuries.
Police shared in an initial social media statement: ‘We believe that a vehicle entered the Tiergarten Park and hit several people and injured them.
Wir sind mit zahlreichen Polizeikräften sowie Rettungskräften der Berliner Feuerwehr im Großen Tiergarten im Einsatz. Mutmaßlich ist hier ein Fahrzeug in den Tiergarten eingefahren, hat mehrere Personen angefahren und dabei verletzt. Die Verletzten werden aktuell von… pic.twitter.com/emEBnpqVUF
— Polizei Berlin (@polizeiberlin) July 25, 2026
Emergency services swarmed the scene after the cancellation of Christopher Street Day celebrations (Picture: Reuters)
‘We are searching intensively for suspects.’
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Images show police, paramedics, and Berlin Fire Department rescue crews inside the park, with a person being carried into an ambulance on a stretcher.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Germany’s capital for the peaceful occasion, which also takes place in Switzerland.
It is one of Europe’s largest Pride events and is held in memory of the Stonewall riots, which marked the first major uprising of LGBTQ+ people against police assaults at the Stonewall Inn bar.
Over 150 cities in Germany hold annual CSD events, including Hamburg and Cologne.
The Pride celebrations began this afternoon in the city (Picture: Fabian Sommer/DPA via AP)
CSD is one of Europe’s largest Pride events (Picture: Fabian Sommer/DPA via AP)
Today’s event began this afternoon with a parade in the city before making its way to the park for the evening.
Police have not confirmed whether the Pride event had been deliberately targeted.
According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, a Michael Jackson show was underway when the event’s immediate cancellation was announced.
A member of the CSD board took to the stage and told the audience: ‘Unfortunately, we have to end the event prematurely due to a difficult situation.’
Then, on social media, a message was shared by organisers, reading: ‘Please leave the premises calmly and in an orderly manner. Please avoid the Victory Column and the Tiergarten. Leave the premises in the direction of the main train station.’
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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