The search for survivors was suspended in Baltimore on Tuesday evening, March 26, after the collapse of a highway bridge in the port of this city in the eastern United States.
The six missing people, employees of a construction company who worked on the Francis Scott Key Bridge, are now presumed dead, a Coast Guard official said.
"Based on the length of the search..., the temperature of the water, at this time we do not believe that we will find these individuals still alive," Vice Admiral Shannon Gilreath said at the time. of a press conference.
Despite a vast deployment of rescue services by air, on land, at sea and even underwater, only two survivors were found, one of whom was seriously injured.
With AFP
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