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00:00We start in the United States and two people have died and at least 22 have been injured.

00:05It's after a Mexican Navy training ship crashed into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.

00:10It was during a festive visit to the country.

00:12Footage has emerged showing towering masts of the ship clipping the bridge

00:16as the sailing vessel was passing under the famous structure on Saturday evening.

00:20Parts of the masts reportedly fell onto the deck.

00:23New York City's emergency management said it was responding to an incident

00:27without giving any further details.

00:30Eyewitnesses described the moment the boat made contact with the bridge.

00:34The boat kind of just like was going past the bridge and you just saw the top of it snap off

00:39and it just like kept on snapping and there was...

00:42I think there was a person dangling from the top.

00:45I couldn't tell if it was just through my eyes and we were able to zoom in on our phone

00:50and there was someone dangling from a harness from the top for like at least like 15 minutes

00:54before they were able to rescue them.

00:55Yeah, and then we just stayed the entire time watching the home rescue.

00:58I think the firefighter, everyone just...

01:01They were, someone was dangling from the top.

01:03They were trying to pull him up.

01:04There was a bunch of people up top.

01:06It was just at first like we just didn't know what was happening.

01:09That was a show, honestly.

01:10Yeah, it was...

01:12And then it just kept getting worse.

01:15Well, our reporter Prateekshar Kadeel gave us this update from the scene.

01:19I've been here for just over a couple of hours now and you can see the iconic Brooklyn Bridge behind me.

01:28Pretty dramatic scenes unfolded here just a few hours ago.

01:32We believe it was just after sunset here on the East River that you can see behind me.

01:38When this incident happened, the vessel is supposed to be a Mexican Navy ship, a Navy sail ship, carrying 277 Mexican cadets on board.

01:52Apparently, this is a custom.

01:55It happens at the end of training.

01:57Every year they were on a promotional tour.

01:59There are reports that the ship may have lost power just before the collision and that may have caused the incident.

02:09Dramatic social videos that, social media videos that we've been seeing show us how it slowly went towards the bridge in my background there.

02:20And the masts grazed the very bottom of that bridge with some debris scene falling off.

02:28And this was happening at a time when the bridge was busy with traffic.

02:34There was traffic going both ways.

02:36It's a multi-lane bridge.

02:38There's also a subway that goes there.

02:41But then in the aftermath, of course, it was all shut down and New Yorkers were told to avoid the area.

02:49What do you know about those who've been killed and injured?

02:53Very scant details emerging as of now.

02:56All that we have heard from the mayor is that nobody seems to have fallen into the water.

03:04And there were a couple of cadets reportedly on the masts.

03:10We still don't have clarity who are the deceased.

03:14How did this happen and how did they receive their very serious injuries?

03:18But earlier, the mayor did say that four were seriously injured.

03:23We will discover soon whether the two of the deceased are among those who were seriously injured.

03:29And it seems from the pictures we're seeing that quite a lot of people were watching as this accident happened.

03:36That's right.

03:37Because remember, Brooklyn Bridge is a New York City tourist hotspot.

03:42It's famous.

03:43It's on every tourist guide, every tourist book.

03:46The tourists who come here also, like, straddle it up and down.

03:51They walk the bridge to see panoramic views of the skyline of the New York City.

03:57Very beautiful sunsets and sunrises can be seen here.

04:02Brooklyn Bridge itself, a very old bridge.

04:06It's been here since the 1800s and is quite majestic looking, as you can see.

04:13So, of course, there were people here who were watching this unfold as it happened.

04:18And when the ship seems to have lost slight control, it veered towards the shore where people were standing and watching.

04:26And you can see them running from the scene after that.

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