A Tesla Cybertruck has exploded in flames outside the Trump Hotel Las Vegas, killing the driver and injuring at least seven others with the FBI and police launching an investigation. or signup to continue reading Videos taken by witnesses showed the vehicle exploding and flames pouring out of it, as it sat just outside the hotel. Wednesday's incident occurred just hours after a man drove a truck into crowds of New Year's Day revellers in New Orleans, killing at least 15.
"Obviously a Cybertruck, the Trump hotel- there's lots of questions that we have to answer," Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a press conference. FBI special agent in charge Jeremy Schwartz later told reporters that it was not yet clear whether the blast was an act of terrorism. "I know everybody's interested in that word, and trying to see if we can say, 'Hey, this is a terrorist attack.
' That is our goal, and that's what we're trying to do," Schwartz said. He added that the FBI had identified the person driving the vehicle, which had been rented in Colorado, but was not yet ready to publicly identify the driver. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and an adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, said the blast was unrelated to the Cybertruck itself.
"We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself," Musk said in a post on X. "All vehicle telemetry was .