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US officials board ship that hit Baltimore bridge, divers search for bodies

US officials board ship that hit Baltimore bridge, divers search for bodies

U.S. federal safety investigators recovered the black box from the freight ship that crashed into a Baltimore bridge, the agency chief said as rescuers searched for the remains of six construction workers lost in the bridge collapse. A highway team also will be looking at the twisted remains of the Francis Scott Key bridge as they try to determine how and why a container ship smashed into a pillar of the 1.6-mile (2.6 km) span in early morning darkness on Tuesday. Investigators from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board recovered the data recorder after boarding the ship late on Tuesday, NTSB…
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Fear grips India’s vast informal workforce as vaccines run low

Fear grips India’s vast informal workforce as vaccines run low

ANURADHA NAGARAJ and ROLI SRIVASTAVA INDIAN developer Satish Magar has managed to get 700 of his construction workers vaccinated against COVID-19 in the last month, and he hopes to do the same for another 2,000 in May. Magar wants all his workers to have the vaccine as India grapples with a catastrophic surge in coronavirus cases that has overwhelmed hospitals and morgues, with oxygen in short supply. "We have explained the importance of getting vaccinated to them," said Magar, the national president of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India (CREDAI). "If they don't get vaccinated, one infection…
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