Fireworks mortars, gas canisters stuffed inside Tesla, which exploded in front of the Trump Hotel Las Vegas

Las Vegas (AP)-Camp fuels were found in the back of Tesla Cybertruck, which exploded before the President-President of Elect Donald Trump Las Vegas Hotel, killing the suspect in the vehicle.

Metropolitan Police in Las Vegas and fire brigades of Clark said that the person had died in a futuristic pickup, and 7 people nearby suffered a slight injury.

In the late Wednesday afternoon, the authorities were still working on pulling the body out of the vehicle and starting the processing of evidence inside. President Joe Biden was informed about the explosion.

“Our number one goal is to ensure the proper identification of the entity involved in this incident,” said Jeremy Schwartz, acting as a special agent liable for the FBI Las Vegas office, “after this our second goal is to establish it was an act of terrorism or not. “

The sheriff of the Police Department Kevin McMahill said that the authorities know who rented a truck with the Turo application in Colorado, but they don’t give the name until the investigator determines whether he was the same person died.

McMahill said that the video captured at Tels charging stations provided by CEO of Elon Muska helped the authorities track the vehicle’s journey, arriving at Las Vegas around 7:30 in the morning. Then driving about an hour later in the territory of Trump International Hotel, where he sat 15-20 seconds before the explosion.

The film presented at the afternoon press conference showed the fall of the charred fireworks mortars, canisters and other explosives crowded at the back of the pickup. The partitions of the truck bed were still intact because the explosion fired straight than on the sides.

Musk said on Wednesday afternoon to X that “we have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb transported in the bed of rented Cyberbruck and is not associated with the vehicle itself. The whole telemetry of the vehicle was positive at the time of explosion. “

In an earlier post on the Musk platform, he said that his entire higher period examined the explosion, adding: “We’ve never seen something like that.”

Musk has recently grow to be a member of Trump’s inner circle. Neither Trump nor Musk were in Las Vegas on early Wednesday. Both participated in the Eve Eve New Year’s Trump event in Trump’s Estate in southern Florida.

Musk estimates about $ 250 million during the presidential campaign to support the former president. He was in Trump’s resort on an election night and was often a guest there. Trump called Musk, the richest man in the world, to steer a brand new effort to search out ways to scale back the size and expenditure of the government.

“This is Tesla’s truck and we know that Elon Musk cooperates with President Elekt Trump and this Trump Tower,” said McMahill, when reporters asked about possible political connections. “So of course you should be worried about it and we still look.”

The truck explosion took place just a few hours after the driver He stuck the truck into the crowd In the famous French district in Nowy Orlean at the starting of the latest yr, killing not less than 15 people before they were shot by the police. The disaster was examined as a terrorist attack, and the police consider that the driver didn’t act alone.

“We absolutely examine all connectivity with what happened in New Orleans, as well as other attacks that took place all over the world,” said McMahill. “We don’t rule out anything.”

In a press release, Turo said he was cooperating with the authorities.

“We do not believe that either the tenant involved in Las Vegas and New Orlean attacks had criminal origin that would identify them as a security threat,” he said.

In Las Vegas, witness Ana Bruce, visiting Brazil, said she had heard three explosions.

“The first in which we saw fire, the second, probably a battery or something like that, and the third was a great one who smoked the whole area and was the moment when everyone was told that they were evacuating and staying away from afar,” said Bruce.

Her travel companion, Alcids Antunes, showed a video that he took the flames, tilting the sides of the vehicle in silver.

The 64-storey hotel is positioned next to Las Vegas Strip and on the other side of the street from the Las Vegas shopping mall.

Eric Trump, son of President Elek and Vice President of the Executive Organization of Trump, Published about fire On the social media platform X. praised the fire brigade and native law enforcement agencies “for a quick reaction and professionalism”.