Las Vegas, January 2
One person has died and at least seven others have been injured after an explosion in a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. The FBI said they are investigating. Videos taken by witnesses inside and outside the hotel at the time of the incident show a vehicle exploding and flames shooting out of it.
Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said at a press conference that there are obviously a lot of questions that we have to answer for this explosion of a cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, said that the explosion was not related to the Cyber Truck. “We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb placed in the bed of the rental cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle,” Musk said in a post on X.
“All vehicles had positive telemetry at the time of the blast. Telemetry involves the automatic collection of data from remote sources, transmitting it back to a central source so that it can be analyzed later. The Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is part of the Trump Organization, President-elect Trump’s company.
One person was found dead inside the 2024 model-year Cybertruck and seven people suffered minor injuries from the explosion, McMahill said. It is also being investigated as a possible act of terrorism, reports said. The FBI is investigating, Special Agent in Charge Jeremy Schwartz said during a press conference that the investigation will continue until we get to the bottom of it and find out what happened and why. –Writers
