Washington:
The physique of the sixth and closing sufferer who died after a container ship struck a bridge within the US metropolis of Baltimore has been recovered, Maryland state authorities stated Tuesday.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a serious transit route into the busy port of Baltimore, collapsed on March 26 when the Dali container ship misplaced energy and collided right into a help column, killing six roadway development employees.
The sufferer was recognized by authorities as 37-year-old Jose Mynor Lopez, a development employee from Baltimore, Maryland, who had been engaged on the bridge when it collapsed.
“At present, Jose Mynor Lopez, the sixth and closing lacking sufferer, was recovered,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon M Scott stated on X, previously Twitter.
The Unified Command, a joint process pressure made up of police, the coast guard and authorities companies responding to the catastrophe, stated Lopez’s relations had been notified.
Maryland State Police stated the restoration of the physique was a “milestone” in restoration efforts.
Work to totally reopen the delivery channel would proceed “as we shut this chapter on this (restoration) effort,” Scott stated.
The 1,000-foot (300-meter) Dali ship had issued a Mayday name moments earlier than the collision which gave police time to cease site visitors to the bridge, possible saving lives.
However an eight-man development crew repairing potholes on the bridge couldn’t be reached in time, and plummeted with the tons of concrete and twisted metal into the Patapsco River.
Two employees have been rescued alive, one briefly hospitalized and the opposite unhurt.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board have each opened felony investigations into the catastrophe.
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