A cargo ship rammed into one of the support pillars of the four-lane, 2.5-kilometre-long Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, about 62 kilometres north-east of Washington, around 1:30 am (0530 GMT) on Tuesday morning, causing it to collapse.
Maryland State Police’s Roland Butler said that on Wednesday at about 10 am divers located a red pickup truck about 7 metres deep and found the bodies of two victims trapped in the vehicle.
They were identified as a 35-year-old Mexican national and a 26-year-old Guatemalan national. Butler also said that authorities would be moving from recovery mode to a salvage operation in a press conference on Wednesday evening.
