A Mexican Navy ship collides with the Brooklyn Bridge, killing two crew members.

BarcelonaThe training ship of the Mexican Navy Cuauhtémoc The Mexican boat collided with the Brooklyn Bridge last night, killing two crew members and injuring 17 others, according to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. As seen in numerous videos posted on social media, the boat, which was decorated with lights and a large Mexican flag, approached the bridge and crashed because the 45-meter-high poles were too high to pass under the bridge's arch at that point. According to the U.S. Navy, no rescue operation was necessary because no one fell into the water.

This morning, Adams announced to X that two of the 277 people on board had died and two others remained in critical condition. Naval cadets in white uniforms could be seen hanging from the ship's crossbeams after the accident. "No one fell overboard; all the injuries were inside the ship," a police official said. The official himself indicated that the cause of the accident was probably a mechanical failure. At one of the bridge's bases, near New York's South Street Seaport, videos show scared pedestrians running away as the large ship collides with the bridge and comes to rest towards the pier.

The crew of the Cuauhtémoc It is made up of 64 women and 213 men. The ship had set sail from the port of Acapulco on April 6 with the mission of "exalting the maritime spirit" and "carrying a message of peace and goodwill to the Mexican people." Before arriving in New York, it had passed through Jamaica and Cuba, and was now headed toward Iceland. Cuauhtémoc It was built at the Celaya shipyard in Bilbao in 1981, according to the South Street Seaport Museum, which was co-organizing the ship's visit to New York, scheduled to end Saturday afternoon. The public had been invited to board the ship during the visit. At the time of the accident, the ship was leaving New York and heading toward Iceland, according to the New York police.