Fireworks mortars were on board the pickup, according to a source cited by ABC News.
Published on 01/01/2025 23:09
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Unintentional accident or deliberate attack? A Tesla Cybertruck pickup exploded on Wednesday, January 1, in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, local police announced. “There is a deceased person inside the Cybertruck”declared Kevin McMahill, sheriff of the Las Vegas police, also mentioning seven people suffering from “minor injuries”.
Fireworks mortars were on board the pickup, according to an official cited by ABC News on condition of anonymity. Authorities are now investigating whether the explosion was intentional. Elon Musk, boss of Tesla and future member of Donald Trump's administration, declared on his social network X that his teams were investigating this explosion. “We’ve never seen anything like this.”he assured. In images posted on social networks, a gray Cybertruck electric vehicle, parked in front of the hotel entrance, explodes in a huge cloud of smoke followed by pyrotechnic explosions.
This explosion came a few hours after a former American soldier, identified by the FBI as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is suspected of having driven into the crowd in New Orleans, killing at least ten people and injuring 35. “As you can imagine, with an explosion here on our iconic Las Vegas Boulevard, we are taking every precaution to keep our community safe.”assured the sheriff of this Nevada city, without providing further details.
