Workers pulled bodies Saturday from the rubble of the collapsed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University amid a new revelation that officials knew the span was cracked before it fell.
Two flattened cars — a white Chevy pickup and a gold Jeep Cherokee — were pulled from the rubble along with three bodies.
The cars were draped with black tarps and transported to the medical examiner’s office.
In a statement released Saturday shortly after midnight, the Miami-area university said engineers told its representatives and officials from the Florida Department of Transportation about a crack in the bridge.
The news came at a meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday, 4¹/₂ hours before the bridge suddenly collapsed.
The engineers said that “there were no safety concerns and the crack did not compromise the structural integrity of the bridge,” the university said in a statement.
One victim’s uncle raged against the “complete incompetence” that preceded the disaster.
“Why they had to build this monstrosity in the first place to get children across the street?” said an anguished Joe Smitha. His niece, Alexa Duran, died in the collapse.
The death toll was still unclear Saturday afternoon when authorities recovered the bodies of Oswald Gonzalez, 57, Alberto Arias, 53 and Rolando Fraga Hernandez, 60.
Gonzalez’s nephew, Erik Rojas, had sought more information on his whereabouts at the center FIU set up to deal with victims’ family members.
Rojas told The Post he became concerned when he heard on Thursday about the bridge crash and could not reach his uncle, who lived near FIU.
“I was expecting this outcome,” a heartbroken Rojas said after authorities confirmed his uncle’s death. “It’s still a shock.”