Baltimore bridge disaster bereaved sue shipping firm

"That was the hardest day of my life," says a widow who lost her husband when the span collapsed.

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"I got a knock on the door from my husband's son," she recalls. "It's news I wouldn't wish on any wife. At that moment, I wished I had wings so I could fly and save him."

Luna, a 49-year-old father of three originally from El Salvador, was one of eight workers fixing potholes on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge when it was struck by a 948ft (289m) cargo ship - the M/V Dali - sending an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 tonnes of debris into the shipping channel below.

Six of the workers - all originally from Latin America - died in the bridge collapse.

It would be more than five weeks until Luna’s body was recovered in early May.

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