New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams says 19 individuals had been injured within the collision, 4 of them critically.
A Mexican Navy crusing ship has crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge in New York Metropolis, injuring not less than 19 individuals, together with 4 who’re in crucial situation, in response to officers.
The incident came about on Saturday.
Movies posted on-line present the ship crusing beneath the bridge, connecting the New York Metropolis boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, as the highest of its three masts collide with the long-lasting construction.
The masts might be seen snapping and partially collapsing as they crash into the deck of the bridge.
The vessel, which was flying an enormous inexperienced, white and pink Mexican flag, then drifted in direction of the sting of the river as onlookers scrambled away from the shore.
Sailors might be seen aloft within the rigging on the broken masts.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams mentioned 19 individuals had been injured within the crash, 4 critically, however the 142-year-old bridge was spared main injury.
The reason for the collision is underneath investigation.
Sydney Neidell and Lily Katz instructed The Related Press information company they had been sitting outdoors to observe the sundown after they noticed the vessel strike the bridge and one in every of its masts snap. Trying nearer, they noticed somebody dangling from excessive on the ship.
“We noticed somebody dangling, and I couldn’t inform if it was simply blurry or my eyes, and we had been in a position to zoom in on our telephone and there was somebody dangling from the harness from the highest for, like, not less than like quarter-hour earlier than they had been in a position to rescue them,” Katz mentioned.
They mentioned they noticed two individuals faraway from the ship on stretchers into smaller boats.
The Mexican Navy mentioned in a publish on X that the Cuauhtemoc, an academy coaching vessel, was broken in an accident with the Brooklyn Bridge, which prevented it from persevering with its voyage.
It added that the standing of personnel and materials was underneath assessment by naval and native authorities, who had been offering help.
Mexico’s Ministry of International Affairs mentioned on X that its ambassador to the US and officers from the Mexican consulate in New York had been involved with native authorities to supply help to “the affected cadets”, nevertheless it didn’t point out accidents.
The Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 1883, has an almost 1,600-foot (490-meter) foremost span supported by two masonry towers.
Greater than 100,000 automobiles and an estimated 32,000 pedestrians cross the bridge day by day, in response to the town’s transportation division, and its walkway is a serious vacationer attraction.
