- us authorities are probing any possible connection between attack in New Orleans and explosion offer cyber truck outside a Trum Hotel in Las Vegas Elon Musk who owns Tesla said that the produc the producers that cyber truck as well has also alleged a possible link between the two incidents claiming that both vehicles were rented using the same app at least one person was killed and seven wounded when a Tesla cyber truck exploded outside a hotel belong to US president elect Donald Trump in Las Vegas a video footage shows the stainless steel truck parked at the hotel entrance before bursting into flames followed by smaller explosions that appeared similar to fireworks reacting to the explosion musk said that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented cyber truck later reacting to another report he added that explosion appeared likely to be an act of terrorism he added both the Cyber truck and the F-150 vehicle used by the suspect in New Orleans were rented from turo a vehicle renting app several Us Media Outlets reported that authorities were investigating it as a potential terror attack citing unnamed sources Las Vegas Police said that the explosion appeared to be an isolated incident but it said it was investigating every aspect police also added that mortars gas canisters fireworks were also found inside the truck yeah so the question is is there any links to Isis and I will tell you that we don't have any indication of that here in Las Vegas no over Isis flag as was seen in in New Orleans but uh again we are investigating every aspect of this and if that comes to light we'll certainly update you so those are gasoline canisters they are um camp fuel canisters and large firework mortars what I also would like you to pay attention to on that video as you see that it looks like the exterior of that truck is completely intact as it sits there the fact that this was a cyber truck um really limited the damage that occurred inside of the valet because it it had most of the blast go up through the truck and out in fact if you look uh on that video you'll see that the front glass doors at the Trump um Hotel were not even broken by that blast earlier US president elect Donald Trump had linked Wednesday's deadly truck attack on a crowd of revelers in New Orleans to Illegal immigration the issue at the heart of his election Victory not Trump wrote on social media when I said that criminals coming in are far worse than criminals we have in the country turned out to be true however FBI later identified the attacker as shamsu din Jabar A 42-year-old US citizen from Texas he appeared to have been a real estate agent working in Houston and had SED as pardon me served as a specialist in the military and to discuss more we were earlier joined by Dr Charles kupon from Washington DC he's a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and here's what he had to say we've seen this before uh as far as we know Jabar was born in the United States raised in the United States served in the military as a patriot converted to Islam at some point and clearly whether it was online or through friends he became radicalized we've seen the similar kind of story of individuals in uh in Europe when this turn took place how this turn took place whether he was working with other members of the Islamic State we don't know but we do know that the Islamic state has been able to recoup from some of the the serious unraveling that happened during the counter isol campaign Isis K and Afghanistan has carried out attacks in Russia we know that Isis is continuing to carry out operations in Syria the US has gone after those cells recently there are footprints in Africa so this is part of a terrorist Network that is still able to function and here we're seeing to carry out attacks in the United States itself
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