Donald Trump is sworn in as the US President on January 20, the country is in the grip of violence. Right after a terror strike in New Orleans in which a US military veteran drove an a pickup truck with a black Islamic caliphate flag into a New Year crowd celebrating in iconic Bourbon Street, killing 15 and injuring dozens of others, another US military veteran in a suspected suicide bombing exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
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These two incidents have occurred when the US has seen many other acts of violence such as shooting at a nightclub in New York and burning of a woman by an illegal immigrant on a New York City subway train.
Link between New Orleans and Las Vegas terror strikes?
Investigative agencies are probing a possible link: two violent incidents on the same day, both involving vehicles rented from the car-sharing platform Turo, may be connected.
In Las Vegas, a Tesla Cybertruck rented through Turo erupted into flames outside the Trump International Hotel Wednesday morning. The explosion, which left one person dead and seven others injured, is being treated as a possible act of terrorism. A video circulating online shows the Cybertruck engulfed in fire just seconds after stopping near the hotel’s entrance.
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