Only ashes remain. According to France Info, a Tesla Cybertruck vehicle exploded in a cloud of smoke on Wednesday, January 1, in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, local police announced. Images of the spectacular accident quickly circulated on social networks.
One person who was inside the pickup died and seven others were slightly injured, authorities report. The explosion, which led to the evacuation of the hotel, was facilitated by the presence of gasoline cans and “large fireworks mortars,” said a source cited by ABC News.
New Orleans. The investigation is now seeking to establish whether the explosion was intentional. It is also a question of determining whether the latter is linked to the deadly attack which occurred on December 31 in New Orleans. In this case, a former American soldier, identified by the FBI as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is suspected of having driven his vehicle into the crowd.
The attack left at least 15 dead and around 30 injured and the vehicles involved in both incidents were rented through the carpooling application Turo.
“Coincidence.” The Las Vegas sheriff said it was a “coincidence … that we must continue to examine.” A spokesperson for the application, used by millions of people in the United States, said it was collaborating with law enforcement.
For his part, Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla and future member of Donald Trump’s administration, expressed his astonishment about teams were investigating the explosion.
The two incidents occur less than three weeks before the transfer of power between President Joe Biden and his successor Donald Trump against a backdrop of political tensions in the United States.
