A Tesla Cybertruck stuffed with firework mortars exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, says a media report.
In the incident, which happened early on Wednesday, a suspect inside the vehicle was killed, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials said that a person died inside the futuristic-looking pickup truck and seven people nearby suffered minor injuries.
Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said authorities knew who rented the truck with the Turo app in Colorado, but were not releasing the name until investigators determined if it was the same person who died.
Musk said Wednesday afternoon on X that “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. All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion.”
In an earlier post on the platform Musk said that his entire senior term was investigating the explosion, adding, “We’ve never seen anything like this.”
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