Watch live view outside Trump Las Vegas hotel after Cybertruck explosion
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Your support makes all the difference.Watch a live view outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel on Thursday (2 January) after a Cybertruck explosion killed one person and injured several others.
The FBI is investigating the possible link between the assailants in the two deadly New Year’s Day attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, killed at least 15 people and injured dozens of others after ramming a truck into a crowd of revellers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street on Wednesday morning after evading police barriers. Officials do not believe Jabbar acted alone and are investigating whether he had accomplices.
Investigators are now looking at the possible link between Jabbar, a US citizen and Army veteran, and the driver in the Tesla Cybertruck blast outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel which took place just hours earlier. Matthew Livelsberger, 37, a former Army veteran of Colorado Springs, was allegedly behind the wheel when the vehicle exploded, according to local media reports.
Livelsberger and Jabbar are believd to have served at the same military base, sources told Denver7.
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