Nearly seven weeks after the collapse of a major highway bridge in the US city of Baltimore, experts have blown away the remaining rubble in a controlled manner. At the end of March, the container ship ‘Dali’ rammed a support pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the more than 2.5 kilometer long bridge to collapse.
However, part of the massive bridge structure collapsed onto the ship during the accident, making its removal impossible. This part of the bridge was blown up with explosives on Monday (local time) to expose the ship underneath.
The damaged “Dali” is still at the scene of the accident, but must be removed from the road so that shipping traffic can return to normal. The investigation into the cause of the accident is still ongoing. The 21-man crew of the ‘Dali’ from India and Sri Lanka is still on board the ship.
Six workers died
Six men were killed in the accident. The victims were construction workers of Latin American descent who were making repairs to the bridge at the time of the accident. Over the past few weeks, recovery teams had gradually found the bodies of the missing people.
The ship’s crew had made a distress call that day before the collision with the bridge pier, which likely saved lives – as officers on land then stopped traffic and prevented more cars from entering the bridge.
Source: Krone
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