Fifth body recovered from Baltimore bridge collapse site
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Authorities have recovered the body of a fifth victim missing after the Baltimore bridge collapse five weeks ago, officials said Wednesday.
Authorities have recovered the body of a fifth victim in the Baltimore bridge collapse five weeks ago, officials said Wednesday. The victim has been identified as Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, according to the Unified Command, a joint task force composed of police, coast guard and other government agencies to respond to the disaster. A 213-million-pound cargo vessel slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, crippling the structure and killing six workers repairing potholes on it. The bridge was used daily by some 30,000 Marylanders. The six construction workers were immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala. After the discovery on Wednesday, one of the victims’ bodies was still missing. CNN previously reported Luna, 49, was a husband and father of three from El Salvador who had lived in Maryland for more than 19 years, according to the nonprofit CASA, which provides critical services to working-class and immigrant families. “Unified Command salvage teams located one of the missing construction vehicles and promptly notified the Maryland Department of State Police,” Colonel Roland L. Butler, Jr., Superintendent of Maryland’s State Police, said in the statement.
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