MINNEAPOLIS – Divers looking in the Mississippi River for victims of a bridge collapse were forced to suspend their search Saturday, hampered by debris shifting in the swirling, murky current.
Families of the missing waited a third agonizing day for word that any bodies were found. It was not clear whether divers would return to the water later in the day.
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