The bodies of two of the six Latino workers missing when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday, March 26, in Baltimore, Maryland, were recovered this Wednesday inside a truck submerged in the Patapsco River, as reported in a press conference by Governor Wes Moore who showed his solidarity with the affected families.
At 10 a.m., divers found a red truck submerged 25 feet deep in the central part of the bridge with two people inside, who were identified as Alejandro Hernández Fuentes, a 35-year-old Mexican, and Dorlian Castillo Cabrera, a 26-year-old Guatemalan.
At 6 in the morning, the coast guard had resumed the search for the six workers from the Brawner Builders company who fell into the Patapsco River during the collapse, who had already been presumed dead the night before, thus canceling the rescue operation.
A team of eight construction workers was repairing that elevated stretch of Interstate 695 at the time of the freighter crash. and they could not be alerted in time, one of them managed to survive without injuries while another was hospitalized and discharged yesterday Wednesday, in addition six other workers disappeared in the collapse and their identities have not yet been officially released, but the embassies from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras have reported that some are from those countries.
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