Third body recovered from Key Bridge site

Officials in Maryland have recovered the body of a third missing construction worker from the water around the site of the collapsed Francis

Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

Dive teams recovered the body from a submerged vehicle on Friday, and authorities later confirmed his identity as

Maynor Yassir SuazoSandoval, according to the bridge disaster Unified Command team.

The construction worker had been missing since a near-total collapse of the bridge into the Patapsco River on March 26 after a container ship struck a bridge support. The 984-foot, Singaporebased ship Dali hit the bridge about 1:30 a.m. after experiencing mechanical failures.

Suazo-Sandoval is one of six construction workers killed when the bridge collapsed. The span was closed for repair work at the time.

The 38-year-old came to the United States from Honduras more than 17 years ago, was a father of four and had aspirations of starting his own business, immigrant advocate Gustavo Torres told reporters.

Maryland State Police Superintendent Col. Roland Butler Jr. told

WBAL-TV on Friday that Suazo-Sandoval “was the only individual that we located in that vehicle. We went back down a short period of time later to conduct a search around the area.

“The diver was able to enter the vehicle and could not find anyone else who was within the vehicle and no one else located in the area of the vehicle,” he said.

The bodies of fellow construction workers

Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26, were found shortly after the bridge collapse. Both men were found trapped inside a pickup truck submerged in the water.

Three construction workers who were also on the bridge at the time remain missing and are presumed dead.

“There are families still waiting to hear if we have found their loved one,”

Butler said Friday. “I can promise you: We are fully committed to finding closure for each of these families.”

The news came on the same day that President Joe Biden visited the site, assuring residents the partially obstructed port would reopen soon. Biden also previously announced $3.5 million in emergency dislocatedworker grant funding to Maryland.

Specialty salvage crews have already removing the collapsed pieces of the 1.6-mile steel-arch, continuous-truss bridge.