Baltimore Bridge Crash: Tragedy Strikes Baltimore Port

In a shocking incident of Baltimore Bridge’s fatal crash across the entrance to the Maryland city’s port, the container ship Dali was found responsible for claiming the lives of 6 construction workers who were on the bridge during the collision.

Baltimore Bridge Crash: Quick Insight

Dali while heading to Srilanka, lost its power suddenly, (but the power came back briefly only to flicker off again and it was too late to handle the situation after the power was back the 2nd time) and the pilot issued a distress call before crashing the bridge.

Within a few minutes after the accident, Police officers stationed at both ends of the bridge were instructed to halt the flow of traffic crossing the bridge as informed by Marcel Muise, the NTSB investigator in charge of the collapse inquiry.

The Indian crew of Dali’s timely escalation was praised as the crew was able to save many lives even in such a calamity. Biden thanked the Indian crew and said “Undoubtedly saved lives”. However, a US-based webcomic’s racist cartoon ‘Foxford Comics’ shared a post on X captioned “Last known recording from inside the Dali moments before the impact” has created quite a stir.

Indian Economist Sanjeev Sanyal condemned the post targeting Indians. Many people took to their X accounts and slammed the cartoon mocking the Indian crew how could one degrade the crew when the US officials themselves appreciated their efforts.