Maryland state police say the six people who were missing after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland, are now presumed dead.

Authorities said the accident sent a number of vehicles and eight construction workers into the Patapsco River. Two people were rescued on Tuesday, but Jeffrey Pritzker, a senior executive at Brawner Builders, the employer of the construction workers, said the other six were presumed dead, given the water’s depth and the length of time since the crash.

Maryland officials are in agreement and say that the recovery effort will continue tomorrow morning with a team of divers.

Pritzker said the crew had been working in the middle of the bridge when it came apart. No bodies have been recovered.

  • @jordanlund
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    35 months ago

    CNN is reporting that they had continual electrical failures for the previous two days while it was docked.

  • @acetanilide
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    25 months ago

    Were all the vehicles that fell in construction vehicles then?

    • @mercano
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      45 months ago

      The ship put out a distress call a few minutes before impact, causing the police to close the bridge to traffic. I don’t know why the road crew weren’t able to evacuate.