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A major bridge in Baltimore snapped and collapsed after a container ship rammed into it, sending a construction crew and five vehicles plummeting into the frigid water below, officials said.

Photos of the aftermath of the Baltimore bridge collapse show pieces of the bridge in the water after the crash.

A rescue operation is underway to locate six construction workers who were on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge when a container ship struck it, collapsing into the Patapsco River early Tuesday morning, authorities said.

“The discussion right now should be about the people, the souls, the lives that we're trying to save," Mayor Brandon Scott said.

BALTIMORE — A massive container ship adrift at 9 mph issued a “mayday” early Tuesday as it headed toward the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge, losing power before colliding with one of the support columns. As the vessel struck the bridge in the middle of the night, it caused a din that could be heard ashore and immediately toppled an essential mid-Atlantic thoroughfare into the frigid waters. ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Bridges are important lifelines connecting the San Francisco Bay Area and disasters like Tuesday’s bridge versus cargo ship crash in Baltimore have happened here. The Bay Area has eight large toll bridges and cargo ships pass under some of them. A ship strike is rare, but that’s what happened on the […]

Massachusetts Maritime Academy has a simulator that helps prepare mariners for operating massive container ships.

Social media users are claiming a video shows a fiery explosion on the bridge that collapsed in Baltimore, Maryland after a heavily laden cargo ship lost power and smashed into a support column. But the clip is misrepresented; the surveillance footage captured a massive blast at the Kerch bridge connecting Russia with the annexed Crimea peninsula in October 2022.

Any bridge would have collapsed if struck in a main support column, experts say, as the Francis Scott Key Bridge was by a loaded container ship.

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