Transport Online – Police: six missing in Baltimore bridge collapse ‘presumed dead’

BALTIMORE – Six people missing after the collapse of a road bridge in the American port city of Baltimore are “presumed dead”, the Maryland state police said. The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the active search for survivors until Wednesday morning. Divers will then continue the search, according to the coast guard.

There were eight people on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore when a cargo ship rammed a pier on the 1.6-mile-long road bridge, causing much of it to collapse. Only two survivors were found, including one seriously injured.

The eight were part of a work crew that repaired holes in the road surface of the road bridge. The six people believed to have been killed included workers from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, the Mexican consulate in Washington said.

Earlier Tuesday, confusion arose after a Baltimore city council member told CNN that a body had been pulled from the water. That information turned out to be incorrect. This leaves six people missing, all of whom are presumed dead. These are probably workers who carried out repair work on the bridge.