Almost a month and a half after the collapse of Baltimore’s largest bridge, rescue teams have found the sixth victim of the accident, the only one still missing, as reported by the authorities in a statement. This is José Mynor López, 37 years old, Guatemalan, who like the other five victims was a Latin American immigrant who worked on a construction crew repairing potholes on the bridge when the super freighter dali He lost control and rammed one of his pillars.
Unified Command teams working to try to remove the remains from the bridge located the sixth victim and notified the Maryland State Police Department. Their investigators, along with agents from the Maryland Transportation Authority Police and the FBI, responded to the scene and recovered the body. After identification, they told the family.
Eight construction workers were working on the bridge when the accident occurred. Two of them survived the collapse. The bodies of two others were recovered the next day from inside a vehicle that sank with the bridge: Mexican Alejandro Hernández Fuentes, 35, and Guatemalan Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26. Then the bodies of Honduran Maynor Suazo, 37 years old, married with two children, appeared; the Mexican Carlos Daniel Hernández, and the Salvadoran Miguel Luna, married with three children, who had lived in Maryland for more than 19 years, according to the CASA organization.
“With heavy hearts, today marks an important milestone in our recovery efforts and provides closure to the loved ones of the six workers who lost their lives in this tragic event,” said Col. Roland Butler, superintendent of the Maryland State Police Department. “As we mourn with the families, we honor the memory of José Mynor López, Alejandro Hernández Fuentes, Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval, Carlos Daniel Hernández Estrella and Miguel Ángel Luna González,” he added through a statement.
The governor of Maryland, Democrat Wes Moore, has also reiterated his condolences to the families through a statement posted on the social network in Spanish in which he asks to respect the privacy of families. “We will always remember the lives of these six Marylanders,” he notes.
He dali, a container freighter almost 300 meters long and 48 meters wide, had left the port around one in the morning, local time (five hours more in mainland Spain) on March 26 to embark on a trip to the port from Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, where it was due to arrive on April 22, on behalf of the Danish shipping company Maersk. However, her voyage ended shortly after setting sail.
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After a loss of power, the ship warned the ground that they had lost control of the ship, which was unable to maintain the desired course and collided with the Francis Scott Key bridge. The ship, which had two port pilots in command, dropped its anchors as part of the emergency procedures, but that did not prevent it from crashing squarely into one of the pillars, which did not have protections to deflect or stop the impact. The collapse was almost immediate.
The debris removal and cleaning tasks continue and the super container crew remains on board the ship while the causes of the incident are investigated in detail. Debris removal teams are preparing a controlled demolition to tear down the largest remaining span of the fallen bridge. This will allow the ship to be disengaged from the infrastructure and taken to the port of Baltimore, so that maritime traffic can return to normal. Thousands of longshoremen, truckers and small business owners have been affected by the closure of the road to traffic.
Engineers have been working for weeks to determine the best way to remove this last important piece of the fallen bridge. The explosives will cause him to fall into the water. A huge hydraulic crane will then lift the resulting steel sections and place them on barges.
Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just four years, with a preliminary cost estimate of between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion.
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