It is thought the four remaining victims may now be entombed in vehicles below the wreckage of the bridge.
A red pickup truck was recovered from 25 feet of water late Wednesday, found to contain the bodies of two members of a road repair crew that had been working on the Francis Scott Key Bridge which was struck by a container ship in the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing a catastrophic failure. This grim discovery takes the total number of workers brought from the water to four, after two members were rescued alive in the moments after the collapse on Tuesday.
There were thought to be eight members of a maintenance crew on the bridge at the time of the allision, meaning the remains of four further workers may still be in the water. Yet recovering the final repairmen may be weeks or months away, as it is now thought the vehicles they were inside are trapped under the wreckage of the bridge.
Maryland state police superintendent Colonel Roland Butler said of the scans that had been assessing what lies beneath the cold waters of the Patapsco: “Based on sonar scans, we firmly believe that the vehicles are encased in the superstructure and concrete that we tragically saw come down”.
The two men taken from the red pickup are 35-year-old Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes of Mexico and 26-year-old Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera of Guatemala.
