A cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, according to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore.

Moore said that as many as 20 people and several vehicles had fallen into the Patapsco River, and a tractor-trailer was on the bridge when the cargo vessel hit a support pillar.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it received a report into the Coast Guard Sector Maryland command center at 1:27 a.m. about a 948-foot Singapore-flagged containership collided with the bridge.

Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedfeld told reporters during a mid-morning news conference that eight people were on the bridge when it collapsed and two people are unaccounted for—one is in the hospital, one refused medical treatment and the others are being searched for. The six missing are presumed to be construction workers.
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