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A freeway in Oklahoma was briefly shut on Saturday after a barge struck a bridge over the Arkansas River, simply days after the tragic collision in Maryland.

State patrol troopers closed US Highway 59 about 1:25 pm after receiving phrase of the incident and diverted visitors from the world, spokesperson Sarah Stewart stated.

The bridge, which crosses the Arkansas River the place it enters the Robert S Kerr Reservoir, was later inspected and the freeway reopened to visitors round 4 pm.

“Engineers inspected the structure and found it safe to reopen,” the Oklahoma Department of Transportation stated in an electronic mail.

There had been no experiences of accidents on the freeway or the barge, and the reason for the collision stays unknown.

The incident got here as engineers in Baltimore started the prolonged strategy of eradicating components of the Francis Scott Key bridge from the Patapsco River.

Four building employees stay lacking, presumed lifeless, after the Dali cargo ship smashed into the bridge within the early hours of Tuesday.

Recovery and salvage operations are underway, although search missions for the remaining our bodies had been paused as a consequence of treacherous situations.

Over the previous a number of days, monumental cranes have arrived in Baltimore to assist clear the wreckage, which officers say is an important step earlier than restoration efforts to seek out the lacking building employees and re-open the port.

One of the cranes, the Chesapeake 1000, is able to lifting 1,000 tonnes — however the bridge is estimated to weigh round three or 4 occasions that, so it is going to should be lower into sections,

On Saturday, Maryland Governor Wes Moore stated search operations for the our bodies of the lacking employees would resume as quickly as situations improved.