AZACUALPA, Honduras (AP) The construction workers who went missing in the Baltimore bridge collapse came to the Maryland area from Mexico or Central America, including an enterprising Honduran father and husband who started a delivery business before the pandemic forced him to find other work, according to his family.

Police managed to close bridge traffic seconds before a cargo ship slammed into one of the Francis Scott Key Bridges supports early Tuesday, causing the span to fall into the frigid Patapsco River. There wasnt time for a maintenance crew filling potholes on the span to get to safety.

At least eight people fell into the water and two were rescued . Two bodies were recovered Wednesday and four remained missing and were presumed dead.

The governments of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras confirmed that their citizens were among the missing .

Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, 38, was the youngest of eight siblings from Azacualpa, a rural mountainous area in northwestern Honduras along the border with Guatemala.

Eighteen years ago, he set out on his own for the U.S. looking for opportunities. He had worked as an industrial technician in Honduras, repairing equipment in the large assembly plants, but the pay was too low to get ahead, one of his brothers, Martn Suazo Sandoval, said Wednesday while standing in the dirt street in front of the familys small hotel in Honduras.

He always dreamed of having his own business, he said.