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2 bodies pulled from underwater wreckage of collapsed Baltimore bridge

The container ship Dali Wednesday morning, March 27, 2024, at the site where it collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The bodies of two men, found inside a submerged red pickup, were recovered from the wreckage of the Baltimore bridge collapse Wednesday morning, officials said. And now the recovery mission has become a salvage operation.

The saga surrounding the Francis Scott Key Bridge began early Tuesday with a mayday alert from crew members of a 985-foot-long container ship en route to Sri Lanka. They had lost power and were barreling toward the bridge.

A dispatch call followed shortly after, at 1:28 a.m. Eastern time.

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