Body of missing Baltimore bridge worker recovered

The body of a missing construction worker who was on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore when it collapsed last week has been found, according to authorities.

The Unified Command, a group that includes the U.S. Coast Guard and Maryland state agencies, said in a press release that the body of Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval, 38, was recovered by its dive teams Friday morning at about 10:30 a.m.

“Unified Command salvage dive teams located what they believed to be the missing construction worker and notified the Maryland Department of State Police,” the release reads. “Maryland State Police Underwater Recovery Team deployed in coordination with dive teams from allied law enforcement partners and recovered Suazo-Sandoval.”

The release also said that investigators with the Maryland State Police, an FBI victim specialist, the Baltimore County Critical Response Team and the Governor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs have “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,” Colonel Roland L. Butler, Jr., superintendent of the Maryland Department of State Police, said in the release.

“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,” Butler continued.

President Biden visited Baltimore Friday and said he would “move heaven and Earth” to rebuild the bridge.

“I’m here to say, your nation has your back. And I mean it. Your nation has your back,” Biden said with the bridge’s ruins behind him.

“The damage is devastating and our hearts are still breaking,” the president said, also referencing the six deaths that came as a result of the bridge’s collapse.