The victim of the Berlin Pride festival attack was a Polish national, the foreign ministry in Warsaw confirmed.
WARSAW: The woman who died in the Berlin Pride festival attack at the weekend was a Polish national, the foreign ministry in Warsaw said on Monday.
“Shocked and deeply saddened to learn that the victim of the tragic Berlin attack was a Polish citizen,” ministry spokesperson Maciej Wewior wrote on X.
According to the German daily Bild, the 65-year-old woman from Warsaw went to Berlin with her daughter to attend the Pride festivities.
Her daughter survived the attack in which the perpetrator drove a rented van into a crowd and then slashed at people with a machete.
Another 29 people were wounded in the attack, many seriously.
Police on Sunday shot dead the presumed perpetrator Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German Islamist of Lebanese origin, in west Berlin after he approached them with a bladed weapon.
