Brooklyn Bridge, who was hit by the Mexican Navy training ship, injured 19

Nineteen people were injured when a Mexican ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Saturday, official said.

Mayor Eric Adams said

“Nobody fell into the water, they were all injured in the ship,” said a NYPD official. “The ship, according to what I informed of the ship's superiors, was out to go to Iceland.”

Ship falls against the Brooklyn Bridge

In Spanish, the Mexican Navy said in a position on X that the Cuauhtemoc was damaged during a sailing maneuver, “a misfortune with Brooklyn Bridge took place, which was damaged by the training ship. This prevents the training on the training in the fields of training cruise to enable navigation. Future civil servants of the Mexican Navy.

Videos published online showed that the mast of the ship hit the bridge and broke apart.

“I think it was the pilot who is commissioned to navigate, you know the boat from the water, I think there were some mechanical problems that probably caused the ship to hit the water,” added the NYPD official.

Esteban Moctezuma Barragán, Mexican ambassador in the USA, said that the ship has been sailing for about 20 years and was from Cozumel, Mexico, to Iceland.

The police asked people to avoid the area around Brooklyn Bridge, including South Street Seaport in Manhattan and Dumbo in Brooklyn because of the collision. The bridge had been temporarily closed for traffic, but has been open again since then.

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