Two people pulled from Patapsco River in search for bodies after Dali cargo ... trends now
Two bodies have been recovered from the Patapsco River following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, according to local reports.
The two men were discovered in a vehicle and were brought to shore on Wednesday afternoon, two sources with knowledge of the matter told the Baltimore Banner.
The identities of the deceased were not yet publicly available.
Six construction workers who were repairing potholes on the bridge when a cargo shipping container vessel crashed into it are presumed dead. Two surviving workers were pulled out of the water on Tuesday.
The search for the remaining six began early on Wednesday morning after the Coast Guard called off its active search and rescue mission on Tuesday declaring that those missing were presumed dead.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore said the ship's crew notified officials that it had lost power in the moments before the collision
The cargo ship Dali is stuck under part of the structure of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the ship hit the bridge
Details of the fatal incident are still emerging but earlier on Wednesday a port worker claimed that the Dali cargo ship which smashed into the bridge suffered a 'severe electrical problem' while docked in Baltimore days before.
Julie Mitchell, co-administrator of Container Royalty, a company which tracks cargo, told CNN the ship was anchored at the port for at least 48 hours prior to the deadly crash.
Following the devastation, she said: 'And those two days, they were having serious power outages… they had a severe electrical problem. It was total power failure, loss of engine power, everything.'
Mitchell explained that refrigerated boxes tripped breakers on board the ship on several occasions, and mechanics had been trying to fix the issue.
She said she didn't know whether the problem had been fixed when the ship set off.
The 1.6-mile Key Bridge partially collapsed after the cargo shipping container vessel crashed into one of its support structures just before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore said the ship's crew notified officials that it had lost power in the moments before the collision.
Mitchell told CNN that major power problems on board large vessels like the Dali are 'not really that common at all', describing the freak incident as 'very rare'.
'They shouldn't have let the ship leave port until they got it on under control,' she said.
Six workers who were on the bridge, pouring concrete to fix potholes as part of a
