Baltimore | Divers recovered the remains on Wednesday of two of the six missing workers tossed into Baltimore Harbour from a highway bridge that collapsed into shipping lanes after being rammed by a faltering cargo freighter, officials said. The bodies were pulled from the Patapsco River a day after the massive container ship lost power and its ability to manoeuvre before ploughing into a support pylon of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, knocking most it into the water below.
A Maryland State Police official said the truck containing the bodies of the two men was found in about 25 feet of water near the mid-section of the fallen bridge. He also said that further efforts to recover remains were being suspended because of the increasingly treacherous conditions. Four more workers who were part of a crew filling potholes on the bridge’s road surface at the time remained missing and were declared on Tuesday night to be presumed dead, 18 hours after the crash.