The body of a fifth construction worker who died in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March was found on Wednesday, officials said.
The victim was identified as Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, 49, of Glen Burnie, Md., state officials said in a news release.
Mr. Gonzalez was one of six workers who went missing in the collapse.
The crews notified the Maryland State Police, who along with the Maryland Transportation Authority Police and the F.B.I.
recovered Mr. Gonzalez’s body from a red truck.
Mr. Gonzalez, who was from El Salvador, was married with three children, according to Gustavo Torres, the executive director of the nonprofit CASA, an organization that provides services to immigrants in Baltimore.
The men were part of a construction crew working on the Baltimore roadway before dawn on March 26, when a large cargo ship named Dali lost power and hit the bridge.
Engineers had long warned that the bridge, because of its design, would not survive a direct hit from a container ship.
Officials reported on Wednesday that they had located the body of the fifth construction worker who perished in the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
According to a news release from state authorities, the victim was identified as Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, 49, of Glen Burnie, Mddot. Six workers, including Mr. Gonzalez, vanished in the collapse. Just one is still missing.
Salvage teams discovered one of the missing construction vehicles on Wednesday, more than five weeks after the bridge collapsed during the night after being struck by a cargo ship. The Maryland State Police, the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, and the F. were alerted by the crews. B. 1. removed the body of Mr. Gonzalez from a red truck.
“A loving family is behind every person lost in this tragedy, and that is why we remain dedicated to the ongoing recovery operations,” Col. Roland L. Butler Jr. , the superintendent of the Maryland Department of State Police, said in a statement.
Hey, Mr. The executive director of CASA, a nonprofit that helps immigrants in Baltimore, Gustavo Torres, said that Gonzalez, who was from El Salvador, was married and had three children.
One day after the accident, two victims were found. Two more were found a few weeks later; a third was found on April 5.
A large cargo ship called Dali lost power and struck the bridge on March 26, just before dawn, while the men were working as part of a construction crew on the Baltimore roadway. Six of the crew members vanished into the water and were deemed dead by the evening, leaving only two of them alive.
When the Dali crashed, it was en route to Sri Lanka with 4,700 shipping containers.
Engineers had long since issued a warning that the bridge’s design would not allow it to withstand a direct hit from a container ship.
