The remains of five people have been recovered from the rubble of a pedestrian bridge that collapsed in South Florida, bringing to six the number of people killed in the collapse, Miami-Dade County Police Director Juan Perez said late Saturday. In another development, Florida International University revealed that engineers talked about the structural integrity of the span hours before its collapse and deemed it safe. Perez said authorities don't expect to find additional victims but will go through the rubble once more as a precaution. Miami-Dade police have identified four of the people killed. The bodies of Rolando Fraga Hernandez; Oswald Gonzalez, 57; and Alberto Arias, 53, were pulled from the rubble on Saturday, authorities said. Navarro Brown was taken to a hospital earlier and died there. The family of FIU student Alexa Duran has said that she was killed in the collapse, but police have not named her as being among the dead. Perez said 950 tons of rubble were moved in the search for the victims.
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