India, May 19 -- America Yamilet Sanchez, a 20-year-old Mexican Navy cadet from Xalapa, Veracruz, was identified as the first victim in the Brooklyn Bridge crash on Saturday. A Mexican naval vessel carrying 277 people scraped the bottom of the famous New York City bridge. Two crew members died at the scene.

The ship, Cuauhtemoc, 'lost power and crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge', New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a post on X, platform formerly known as Twitter, early Sunday. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the deaths and expressed condolences in another post on X. The Mexican Navy said 22 people aboard were injured, 11 of them critically.

The crash occurred during a global goodwill tour when the ship suffered a suspect...