WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI has opened a federal criminal investigation into a March 26 bridge collapse in Maryland, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The investigation will focus at least in part on the freighter Dali and whether its crew left the port of Baltimore knowing the ship had serious problems with its systems, the Post said.
FBI officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.
The head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board separately told Congress last week that he had interviewed key personnel on the cargo ship as part of his investigation into the accident.
Work to clean up wreckage and restore traffic through the Mid-Atlantic State Shipping Channel continues after a massive container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon last month, causing the bridge to collapse into the Patapsco River and killing six bridge workers.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Brendan O’Brien; editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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