Tweet Facebook Mail One person has died and seven more were injured when a Tesla truck caught fire and exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel, authorities said. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials said at a news conference on Wednesday local time that a person died inside the vehicle and that they were working to get the body out. Another seven people nearby received minor injuries and were taken to a hospital for treatment.
READ MORE: Video shows people loading explosive device into New Orleans attack ute The Tesla trucked parked outside the hotel. (Supplied) Smoke rises from the site of the explosion. (Supplied) A county spokeswoman said in a statement that the fire in the valet area of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas was reported at 8.
40 am. No cause was given and details were sketchy. “I know you have a lot of questions,” Jeremy Schwartz, acting FBI Special Agent in Charge for the Las Vegas office, said at the news conference.
“We don't have a lot of answers.” Eric Trump, a son of the president-elect and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, posted about the fire on the social media platform X. He praised the fire department and local law enforcement “for their swift response and professionalism.
” The 64-story hotel is just off the famed Las Vegas Strip and across the street from the Fashion Show Las Vegas shopping mall..
