Several cars, truck believed to have plunged into water in Baltimore span collapse

Several vehicles are thought to have fallen into the Patapsco River after a major bridge in Baltimore collapsed, a fire official says, with rescuers attempting to reach at least seven people believed to have been on the bridge at the time of the incident.

In a video, several construction vehicles can be seen on the span.

Longer video of collapse of main span of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore after a cargo ship apparently hit a support column.

It appears there were multiple construction vehicles on the bridge at the time.

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“The entire bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River,” Baltimore Fire Department spokesperson Kevin Cartwright says, according to the Baltimore Sun.

“We have reason to believe that there were vehicles and possibly a tractor-trailer” on the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

He notes that the number of vehicles that had been on the bridge is unknown, and calls the collapse a “developing mass casualty event.”

“This is a dire emergency,” Cartwright says.