London
4 °C
Manchester
5 °C
Glasgow
-2 °C
Dublin
Belfast
Washington
Denver
Atlanta
Dallas
Houston Texas
25 °C
New Orleans
El Paso
Phoenix
Los Angeles
14 °C
1 °C
23 °C
26 °C
19 °C
-22 °C
26 °C
27 °C
Mexico training ship that hit Brooklyn Bridge returns home / Photo: Marco Antonio Martinez - AFP
NYSE - LSE
Mexico training ship that hit Brooklyn Bridge returns home
The Mexican naval training ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge in May, leaving two crew members dead, returned home on Sunday to official fanfare in the port of Veracruz.
Numerous sailors were positioned in the 150-foot-tall Cuauhtemoc's rigging when it smashed into the iconic bridge linking New York's Manhattan and Brooklyn boroughs. In addition to the two killed, about 20 sailors were injured.
At the ceremony in Veracruz, which featured a flyover, President Claudia Sheinbaum paid tribute to the two sailors killed, who were both in their early 20s.
Both US and Mexican investigators have launched probes into the crash.
D.Fraser--SMC
