Body Of 3rd Key Bridge Worker Recovered By Divers

BALTIMORE, MD — The body of a missing road crew worker — Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval, 38, of northwestern Honduras — was recovered at the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site Friday by divers. Three men remain who were working on the bridge when it was brought down by the strike of a cargo ship are still unaccounted for, officials said.

While Suazo-Sandoval was found about 10:30 a.m., the Unified Command announced the recovery Friday evening.

President Joe Biden flew over the disaster site Friday afternoon, met with the families of the migrant workers killed when the bridge fell into the Patapsco River, and reiterated his support for the rebuilding process in a speech.

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The cargo ship Dali lost power and crashed into the bridge March 26. The ensuing collapse killed two construction workers, with the other four presumed dead and their bodies trapped in the bridge wreckage.

Suazo Sandoval was a father of two who sent money back to Honduras to buy medicine for sick relatives in his hometown of Azacualpa and helped family members open a small hotel there, his nephew, Hector Guardado, told The Washington Post.

“We have been anguished as a family,” Guardado told the Post Friday. The news the body was recovered was “hard, but at the same time comforting.”

Two men’s bodies were found in a pickup truck shortly after the collapse: Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, of Baltimore, and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26, of Dundalk.

Miguel Luna, from El Salvador, Carlos Hernández and Jose Mynor Lopez are the three missing victims, media reports said. The group of workers hailed from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

Mayor Brandon M. Scott released a statement after Suazo-Sandoval's body was recovered:

“This evening the Unified Command announced that divers were able to bring Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval, one of the remaining missing workers, home to his family. While I take solace in knowing this brings us one step closer to closure, my heart continues to be with all the families still waiting anxiously for their loved ones. I am grateful for the first responders who have maintained focus on recovering the remaining victims and continued their work to clear the channel with the utmost care. We will continue to do everything in our power to support these families, and provide whatever they need to persevere through this unthinkable tragedy.”

The president met with the victims' families late Friday afternoon. That meeting was closed to the press.

Read all of Patch's Key Bridge collapse coverage here.

Friday morning salvage dive teams located what they believed to be the missing construction worker and notified the Maryland Department of State Police. That agency's Underwater Recovery Team deployed in coordination with dive teams from law enforcement partners and recovered Suazo-Sandoval.

Maryland State Police investigators, along with an FBI victim specialist, Baltimore County Critical Response Team, the Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs met with and notified Suazo-Sandoval’s family.

“The collapse of the Key Bridge is undoubtedly one of the most challenging tragedies we have faced as a law enforcement agency. Along with our local, state and federal public safety partners, we will not give up,” said Colonel Roland L. Butler Jr., superintendent of the Maryland Department of State Police. “There are families still waiting to hear if we have found their loved one. I can promise you, we are fully committed to finding closure for each of these families,” he said.