No hope to rescue six missing men as search suspended after Baltimore Bridge crash

Hope has perished to find survivors after the 1.6-mile long Francis Scott Key Bridge crashed in pieces into the Patapsco River.

More than 24 hours have passed since a 289metre-long cargo ship, headed to Sri Lanka, collided with the construction in Baltimore, Maryland.

Six people are missing and now presumed dead after the catastrophe in the early hours of Tuesday morning, which saw an unknown number of vehicles plunged in the murky water.

Emergency services were deployed to the scene. Helicopters were circling over the stretch of the river.

Only two people were pulled out from the Patapsco River, with one hospitalised in a ‘very serious condition’.

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