The Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley on Tuesday said terrorism does not appear to have been a factor in the collapse of a major US bridge that fell after a container ship crashed into it.
He said, “There is absolutely no indication that there’s any terrorism, that this was done on purpose,”
According to the AFP, Baltimore officials said at least seven vehicles plunged into the water but could not give an exact figure.
Kevin Cartwright, the spokesperson for Baltimore City Fire Department, that as many as 20 people could be in the river along with “numerous vehicles, and possibly a tractor-trailer or a vehicle as large as a tractor-trailer, (that) went into the river.”
“This is a mass-casualty, multi-agency event,” he said. “This operation is going to extend for many days.”
Tuesday’s disaster may be the worst U.S. bridge collapse since 2007 when the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River, killing 13.
