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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dara Kerr

FBI investigates blazes at Las Vegas Tesla showroom as potential terrorism

overhead view of burnt parked cars
Police are investigating after vehicles were set on fire at a Tesla service center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday. Photograph: Bizuayehu Tesfaye/AP

The Las Vegas police department and the FBI are investigating a blaze set at a Tesla showroom as potential terrorism. The FBI is probing at least three other incidents of Molotov cocktails hurled at Tesla facilities since January, including one in Kansas City, Missouri, that took place on the same night as the alleged arson in Nevada.

In Las Vegas, in the middle of the night on Tuesday, a cluster of Tesla vehicles were set on fire as they sat in a lot at a Tesla collision center, according to the Las Vegas metropolitan police department. Security cameras caught a person dressed in all black tossing what appeared to be Molotov cocktails into the vehicles at approximately 2.45am.

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