Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador said the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore showed that “migrants are out in the middle of the night doing dangerous work,” and as a result, they American politicians who said, “They have shown that they do not deserve to be treated the way they are by some insensitive and irresponsible people.” ”
López Obrador made the remarks after Maryland State Police identified one of the two bodies removed from the Patapsco River on Wednesday as 35-year-old Alejandro Hernández Fuentes from Mexico. went.
“Based on the situation, we are currently moving from recovery mode to a salvage operation due to the superstructure and large amount of concrete and debris surrounding what appears to be a vehicle. Divers are no longer able to safely navigate or work around the area. “in the area surrounding this wreck,” Maryland State Police Superintendent Col. Roland L. Butler Jr. said at a news conference Wednesday night.
Dorrian Lonial Castillo Cabrera, 26, a Guatemalan, was identified by Butler as the other body pulled from the water. Divers found a red pickup truck submerged in about 25 feet of water in the bridge’s mid-span and found two bodies trapped inside.
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The remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge seen from Dundalk, Maryland, on Wednesday, March 27th. (AP/Matt Rourke)
In Tuesday’s accident, the cargo ship Dali collided with one of the bridge’s pillars in the early morning hours, causing the bridge to collapse and killing four other construction workers, it is believed. They also come from Guatemala and El Salvador.
Another victim was identified as Mayor Yasir Suazo Sandoval, 38, the youngest of eight children from Askualpa, a mountainous region in northwestern Honduras, according to the Associated Press.
The news agency said Sandoval left Honduras and entered the United States illegally 18 years ago, then settled in Maryland and worked in construction, brush cutting and any other jobs he could. He later started a package delivery business in the Baltimore-Washington area, said his brother Martín Suazo Sandoval.
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Mayor Yasir Suazo Sandoval, 38, from Honduras, is also among the missing. (Martin Suazo Sandoval/Associated Press)
“He was the fundamental pillar, the bulwark so that other members of the family could also travel there and later get visas and everything else,” Martín Suazo Sandoval told The Associated Press. Ta. “He was really the driving force behind making sure most of the family was able to travel.”
Mr. Maynor has a wife and two children, ages 17 and 5, his brother said. The coronavirus pandemic forced Maynor to find another job, so she joined Brauner Builders, which was doing maintenance on the bridge when it collapsed.
Martín Suazo Sandoval said Maynor never said he was afraid of his job, even though he worked at heights on the bridge, adding: “He always told us to move on.” “He told me I needed to work three times as hard to get there. He said time and time didn’t matter.” If the work is where the work is, you have to be where the work is. ”
This image taken from video released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the cargo ship Dali becoming trapped under part of the bridge structure after colliding with the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. There is. (NTSB/AP)
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The Honduran is in the process of obtaining legal residency and plans to return to his home country this year to complete the process, his brother said.
Fox News’ Bradford Betz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
