(RNN) - A student, 18-year-old Alexa Duran, and a bridge worker, Navaro Brown, were identified on Friday as victims who died in the pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University.
The Miami Herald's Spanish-language paper, el Nuevo Herald, identified FIU student Duran after speaking to her father, Orlando Duran.
"She died when the bridge collapsed on top of her car," he said.
The paper later identified Brown, who worked at Structural Technologies VSL. The company said it had two other employees in the hospital in stable condition.
A spokesman said he was on the bridge "providing installation support for our products."
Duran was driving a Toyota SUV with her friend Richard Humble in the passenger seat when the bridge collapsed. Humble was able to get out of the car, another friend of the pair told the paper.
The friend, Manny Perez, told the paper Duran was "the funniest person I know" and "an awesome person."
“This is going to be the longest and saddest trip of my life. I don’t want to return,” said her father from London, where he was traveling when he got the news. #FIUbridge https://t.co/k5iNuikX3T
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 16, 2018
Another victim identified is #fiubridge worker Navaro Brown. He was 37. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/fbwzCzdu8H
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 16, 2018
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