Searchers have recovered four bodies and are looking for two people missing from three fishing boats that were struck when a bridge collapsed in Taiwan.
The National Fire Agency on Wednesday identified two of the victims as Indonesian and another as Filipino. The fourth body had not been identified.
Taiwan's military deployed a floating platform to help workers remove debris and try to extract two of the boats from under collapsed sections of the bridge.
The third boat was recovered the previous day. All the victims are believed to be fishing boat workers from Indonesia and the Philippines.
The 140-meter (460-foot) -long arched bridge collapsed Tuesday into a bay on Taiwan's east coast, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Taipei, the capital.
A typhoon swept by the island earlier, but the weather was sunny when the bridge collapsed, and it wasn't clear if the storm was a factor.
Ten people were taken to hospitals with injuries, including the Taiwanese driver of an oil tanker truck that fell off the bridge. T
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