Tesla Cybertruck bursts into flames outside Trump hotel in Las ...

A Tesla Cybertruck exploded and burst into flames Wednesday morning just outside the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, killing a person inside the vehicle and injuring several other people standing nearby, local officials said.

The suspicious blast is being investigated as a possible terrorist attack, three senior law enforcement members briefed on the matter told NBC News. A motive has yet to be established.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a top Trump adviser, insisted on X that the explosion had nothing to do with the vehicle.

"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," Musk declared. "All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion."

The blast came just hours after a driver in a rented pickup truck plowed into New Year's Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 15 and injuring more than 30 others before he was shot dead by police.

“With an explosion here on an iconic Las Vegas boulevard, we are taking all of the precautions we need to take to keep our community safe," Clark County/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a news conference. "We’re looking for secondary devices. ... There does not appear to be any further threat to our community now."

The explosion outside the Trump International Hotel was reported about 8:40 a.m. local time, McMahill said.

"We were told that a 2024 Cybertruck pulled up to the front of the hotel, and, in fact, I can tell you it pulled right up to the glass entrance doors of the hotel," McMahill said. "We saw smoke start showing from the vehicle, and then an explosion from the truck occurs."

McMahill said it was unclear whether the person killed in the Cybertruck was a man or woman.

Clark County Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Touchstone said that as first responders began to extinguish the fire, they "realized at the same time that there were multiple persons with injuries located around the vehicle."

Of the seven people injured, Touchstone said, two were taken to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. The injuries of all seven people are considered minor, McMahill said.

Touchstone said officials are working to recover the body of the person from the Cybertruck. Officials asked the public to stay away from the scene.