There is no “irrefutable link” between the vehicle attack in New Orleans, which left at least 14 dead on Wednesday, and the explosion the same day of a Tesla cybertruck in Las Vegas, the FBI announced Thursday. “At this point, there is no compelling link between the New Orleans attack and the Las Vegas attack,” Christopher Raia, a senior FBI official, said at a news conference.
On Wednesday, a Tesla Cybertruck vehicle, Elon Musk's brand pickup, exploded in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person. “There is a deceased person inside the Cybertruck,” Las Vegas Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a press conference, adding that seven other people suffered “minor injuries.”
VideoAttack in New Orleans: no complicity or link with the explosion in Las Vegas has been proven, according to 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” is displayed large, explodes in a huge cloud of smoke.
The explosion came hours after a former US soldier, identified by the FBI as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is suspected of driving his vehicle into a crowd in New Orleans. This attack, treated as an “act of terrorism” according to the federal police, left at least 15 dead, including the suspect, and around thirty injured.
Questioned by the press, Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill had already stated that there was “no indication” to establish a link between the explosion in front of the Trump hotel and the Islamic State group (IS). ). “There is no visible IS flag as was the case in New Orleans,” the police officer said.
The rear of the vehicle contained cans of gasoline and “large fireworks mortars”, he said, estimating that the structure of the Cybertruck had “helped limit the damage”.
“Most of the explosion went through the (vehicle) from the top and came out. If you watch this video, you will see that the glass doors of the Trump Hotel were not even shattered by the explosion,” he says.
