Nikola says damaged truck reignites at its headquarters


FILE PHOTO Logo of U.S. truckmaker Nikola is pictured at the IAA Transportation fair in Hanover Germany September 19 2022. REUTERSFabian BimmerFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Logo of U.S. truckmaker Nikola is pictured at the IAA Transportation fair in Hanover, Germany, September 19, 2022. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo

(Reuters) -An electric truck which was previously damaged reignited at Nikola's Phoenix, Arizona headquarters on Sunday afternoon but there were no injuries, the electric-truck maker said in a statement.

"At approximately 2 pm today at Nikola HQ, one of the trucks that was previously damaged reignited. No one was injured and the fire was quickly contained," the company said.

The damaged trucks were kept at the company's Phoenix site for "safety monitoring and the ongoing investigations."

This comes after last month's fire when Nikola reported a fire around its headquarters and said it suspects foul play behind the incident that affected multiple trucks but caused no injuries.

Nikola did not specify if the truck that reignited on Sunday was one of the trucks damaged in the June fire and did not give any further details.

(Reporting by Juby Babu and Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee)

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