Two dead and twenty -three people were injured, two remain seriously, it was the balance of the spectacular accident of the Mexican School Cuauhtémoc with the Brooklyn bridge in New York, registered at night, according to the mayor of the city, Eric Adams, in an appearance.
The Cuauhtémoc, the flagship of the Mexican Navy, which transported 277 crew, collided with the bridge for reasons still without clarifying, breaking the three masts, an image that could be recorded by numerous people with their mobile phones.
The mayor gave a press conference and explained the event by saying that “the high ship of the Mexican Navy Cuauhtémoc lost electricity and collided with the Brooklyn bridge. At this time, of the 277 on board, there are 19 injured, of which two are in serious and two more condition, sadly, they have died because of the injuries,” said Adams in X.
The Mexican Navy Secretariat confirmed the two deaths in a statement and referred to an “official updated report of 22 injured crew, of which 11 are diagnosed as delicate and nine stable”, figures that are superior to those handled by the Mayor’s Office of New York.
The mayor was accompanied by the Mexican ambassador, Esteban Moctezuma, who without talking about the figures declared that the injured are receiving “the best treatment” in the hospital, and added that the Secretary of the Navy is now looking for relatives to inform them.
Federal transport authorities are investigating the accident, and preliminary information points to “mechanical problems” of the ship, as disclosed in the appearance.
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The emergency services went to the area with a large deployment of troops after the accident, which took place after eight in the afternoon, when there was still light, and for about an hour they kept the Brooklyn bridge closed to vehicle traffic.
In the appearance, a representative of the Mayor’s Office confirmed that “there is no damage of magnitude on the bridge.”
According to images recorded by witnesses and shared on social networks, the three masts of the ship broke one after another when hitting the bridge, and the ship advanced towards a spring that is at its base; A marine group was also observed in the board.
The Cuauhtémoc, a school ship that was made for the first time to the sea in 1982, arrived at the Big Apple on May 13 in a mission of public diplomacy, naval training and cultural promotion, and its next destination was Iceland, where it was going to undertake a route after landing today, authorities reported.
The Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico indicated in a message in X that the accident occurred during “the Zapar maneuver” and “caused damage” on the ship, and later confirmed that “no element fell into the water, so the activation of rescue operations was not necessary.”
The New York congressman Adriano Espaillat, previously indicated in his X account that there was “a rescue operation in the water” and the president of the district of Manhattan, Mark Levine, of the Mayor’s Office of New York, said that the divers had finished their work, without specifying it.
The Navy, in its last message, placed the number of injured in 22, of which 3 presented “consideration” injuries.
With EFE information.
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