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Baltimore bridge rebuild is ‘too dangerous’ after deaths of six migrants, Latino workers say

Source: Julia Saqui/ The Independent

Latino workers have said they are too afraid to take on jobs rebuilding the Baltimore bridge after six migrants died in its collapse last month.

José Luis Juarez, 41, from Guatemala, told The Independent that he wouldn’t work on construction of a new Francis Scott Key Bridge - even if he was paid a million dollars.

“I don’t know if that’s where I’m going to die,” the construction worker said as he visited a memorial to the late workers on Saturday, 6 April. “Yes we’re going to die, but we don’t

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