Videos taken by witnesses inside and outside the hotel showed the vehicle exploding and flames pouring out of it, as it sat just outside the hotel.
“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.
“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 positive at the time of the explosion.”
The Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is part of the Trump Organization, the company of
A person was found dead inside the 2024 model-year Cybertruck and seven people sustained minor injuries from the explosion, McMahill said.
The FBI is investigating, special agent in charge Jeremy Schwartz told the press conference.
McMahill said the Cybertruck pulled up to the Trump building at 8:40 a.m. local time. He said police were mindful of the New Orleans attack that occurred earlier on Wednesday. The FBI said a potential explosive device was found in the vehicle used in the New Orleans attack.
Las Vegas firefighters responded four minutes after the vehicle fire was reported and extinguished it. Two of the injured people were transported to hospitals with minor injuries. The Trump Hotel was evacuated after the incident and most of the visitors were moved to another hotel.
Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and a son of President-elect Trump, posted about the incident on X. “Earlier today, a reported electric vehicle fire occurred in the porte cochère of Trump Las Vegas,“ he wrote.
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