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The FBI has launched a criminal probe targeting the container ship that crashed into a major road bridge in Baltimore last month, collapsing it and killing six people.
The Washington Post described it as a “criminal investigation,” and cited two unnamed US officials as saying the probe will look “at least in part” at whether the crew knew the ship had serious systems problems when it left the port.
In a statement to AFP, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that as a matter of policy it does not confirm or deny investigations.
But it did say its agents were aboard the Singapore-flagged Dali container ship, which remains pinned beneath the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge nearly three weeks after the disaster.
The bridge, a major transit route into the busy city and port of Baltimore, was destroyed in seconds on March 26 when the Dali lost power and drifted into a support column.
The ship had managed to issue a Mayday call in the moments before the collision which gave police time to stop traffic on the bridge, likely saving lives.
But an eight-man construction crew repairing potholes on the bridge could not be reached in time and plummeted with the tons of concrete and twisted steel into the cold waters below.
Two workers were rescued alive — one briefly hospitalized, but the other uninjured. The bodies of two more have been found, while four remain missing, believed to still be pinned beneath the wreckage.
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