US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttegieg confirmed on March 27 that six people died after a bridge collapsed in Baltimore. He added that the death toll could have been in the dozens if not for several factors, including the time of day and the signal that sounded shortly before the ship collided. The next day, March 28, the bodies of two dead were found in the Patapsco River near the scene of the incident. On March 29, it became known that the construction of a new bridge on the site of the one that collapsed in Baltimore, America, could take up to seven years.