Tesla van explodes outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, killing 108
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A Tesla Cybertruck, Elon Musk’s brand van, exploded on Wednesday in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person.
There is a deceased person inside the Cybertrucksaid Kevin McMahill, sheriff of the Las Vegas police, during a press conference, specifying that seven other people were suffering from minor injuries.
During a short speech Wednesday evening, Joe Biden confirmed that authorities were investigating whether there was any possible connection between this explosion and the deadly attack in New Orleans, the American president adding that nothing indicated so far.
We believe this is an isolated eventdeclared, for his part, Jeremy Schwartz, agent of the FBI.
In images posted on social networks, a gray Cybertruck electric vehicle, parked in front of the entrance to the hotel where the name Trump appears large, explodes in a huge cloud of smoke.
Before Mr. Biden’s statement, Elon Musk had claimed on X that he could confirm that the explosion had was caused by large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the back of the rented Cybertruck and is not related to the vehicle itselfwithout supporting his point.
We’ve never seen anything like thishad initially declared the boss of Tesla, an ally of Donald Trump, also responsible for an extragovernmental mission of deregulation and reduction of public spending in the future government of the elected president.