A car drove into a crowd and injured several people during Berlin’s biggest L.G.B.T.Q. Pride event, the city’s police said on Saturday.

The police said that the crash happened shortly before 10 p.m. in Tiergarten, a major park in the city center, and that a hunt for suspects was underway. The police added that some people suffered life-threatening injuries but did not immediately reveal how many, or if there was a suspected motive.

The remainder of Christopher Street Day, a major Pride festival in Germany that is among the biggest such celebrations in Europe, was canceled. The event, named for the New York City street synonymous with gay Pride, draws hundreds of thousands of people to Berlin.

The police said they were responding with emergency crews at the scene and urged people to avoid the area.

There have been several vehicle attacks in Germany in recent years in which assailants drove into crowds. The deadliest of these occurred in Magdeburg, in eastern Germany, in December 2024, when a driver plowed through a Christmas market, killing six people and injuring 309 others.

This is a developing story.