Baltimore bridge collapse: Two bodies found in pickup truck after search for missing workers
manchestereveningnews.co.ukDivers have recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water after a bridge collapsed in Baltimore. The others are presumed dead and officials said search efforts had been exhausted.
The bodies of the two men, aged 35 and 26, were located by divers in the morning inside a red pickup submerged in about 25ft (7.6 metres) of water near the bridge’s middle span, Colonel Roland L Butler Jr, superintendent of Maryland State Police, announced at an evening news conference.
The victims were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Col Butler said. All search efforts have been exhausted, and based on sonar scans, authorities “firmly” believe the other vehicles with victims inside are encased in superstructures and concrete from the collapsed bridge, Col Butler said.
A co-worker of the people missing said on Tuesday that he was told the workers were on a break and sitting in their trucks parked on the bridge when it crumpled.
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