An international tragedy: A father of 3 and a budding entrepreneur are among 6 victims of the Baltimore bridge collapse

They worked the overnight shift repairing potholes on a famed bridge that 30,000 Marylanders relied on every day. But early Thursday morning, a 212-million-pound cargo vessel crashed into a pillar, destroying the bridge and plunging the construction workers into the frigid water below.

They worked the overnight shift fixing potholes on a famed bridge that 30,000 Marylanders relied on every day. But their work ended in tragedy Tuesday morning when a 213-million-pound cargo vessel crashed into the bridge, plunging the construction workers into the dangerously cold water below. After a daylong search, officials called off the rescue mission and said the workers were presumed dead. Two bodies have since been recovered from a pickup truck in the water, Maryland State Police said Wednesday. It was virtually impossible to survive the frigid, 50-foot-deep water after several hours, and it was too dangerous for divers to navigate the dark water amid sharp debris. Now, the grief has transcended borders. “We know our people are involved,” Rafael Laveaga, chief of the Mexican Embassy in Washington’s consular section, said. “It was a crew who was repairing parts of the potholes on the bridge, and they’re the ones who are going to build the bridge again – the Latinos.” The six construction workers were immigrants from four different countries – Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala. These are some of their stories: Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, 38, was one of the construction workers who vanished after the bridge collapse, his brother Martin Suazo told CNN.