Baltimore Rescuers Lose Hope for More Survivors From Bridge Collapse

Published on March 27, 2024

BALTIMORE—Rescuers have lost hope of finding more survivors of the Baltimore bridge collapse, the Coast Guard said, as efforts switched on Wednesday to looking for bodies of the missing and more answers to why a container ship smashed into the span. Search divers were expected to return near dawn to the waters surrounding the twisted ruins of the bridge in Baltimore Harbor to search for six workers missing and now presumed dead. The disaster has forced the indefinite closure of the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, and created a traffic quagmire for Baltimore and the surrounding region....

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