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Germany hunts Islamist suspect after Berlin Pride crowd ramming

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BERLIN, July 26 (Reuters) - Germany launched a national manhunt on Sunday for a known Islamist suspected of ploughing a minivan into a crowd near a huge Pride gathering in Berlin, killing one and injuring 29.
"Everything we see here indicates that we are dealing with an Islamist terrorist attack," Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters at the scene, where he said the van drove down a pavement, running over pedestrians.
The attack happened in the Tiergarten park near the Brandenburg Gate at about 10 p.m. (2000 GMT).
The suspected perpetrator had "attracted attention in the past through a high number of criminal offences, through radicalisation, through membership of the Islamist scene," Dobrindt said.
Berlin police identified the suspect as Abdul B, 21, and published his picture.
Security sources told Reuters the suspect had been released from juvenile detention only two months ago.
After mowing people down with the vehicle, the attacker injured some with a bladed weapon, thought to have been a machete, Dobrindt said.
The fire service said overnight that three of the injured were in a life-threatening condition.