US authorities have recovered the bodies of two workers construction workers who remained missing after the Baltimore Bridge collapsed following the impact of a container ship against the structure.

The Chief of the Maryland State Police, Colonel Roland L. Butler Jr., reported in a press conference that Divers found a red truck in which two people were trapped about seven meters deepas reported by CNN.

He also stated that divers “cannot safely navigate or operate” around the structure. “We have exhausted all search efforts“, he highlighted, adding that “notifications to the victims’ families are being carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation according to established protocols.”

The crew of the ‘Dali’ issued an alert before colliding with the Francis Scott Key bridge, which ended up falling into the Patapsco River, allowing traffic to be cut off and there being only eight vehicles on the structure when it collapsed.

At the time of the collapse there were eight people crossing the bridge, two of whom have been found alive in the river and taken to a hospital. The construction company that employs the Baltimore bridge workers, Brawner Builders, has presumed the six missing people dead.