Two bodies found in pickup truck deep underwater after Baltimore bridge collapse
Divers have discovered the remains of two construction workers found in a red pickup truck that plunged into Baltimore’s harbour after a bridge collapsed.
The bodies were pulled from the freezing Patapsco River on Wednesday morning, a day after the Dali container ship lost power and collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, knocking most of it into the water.
They were identified as Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, from Mexico, and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26, from Guatemala, and discovered in the pickup around 25 feet of water on Wednesday.
Four other construction workers are unaccounted for and presumed dead, the Coast Guard said. They were repairing potholes on the bridge when it collapsed at 1.30am on Tuesday.
Officials announced on Wednesday night they were suspending their recovery operation because of the increasingly treacherous conditions in the water.
“Because of the superstructure surrounding what we believe were the vehicles and the amount of concrete and debris, divers are no longer able to safely navigate and operate around that,” said Col Roland Butler, the superintendent of Maryland State Police.
“We have exhausted all search efforts.”
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