A new tragedy for the Kennedy family ... the loss of two of their members on a cruise in Maryland

Maryland State authorities announced the loss of two members of the Kennedy family, one of them the niece of the late President John Kennedy, on Friday after they went on a rowing boat trip, in another tragedy hitting the most famous political family in the United States.

Larry Hogan, governor of this state neighboring Washington, told a news conference that Mayf Kennedy McCain, 40, and her son Gideon, 8, did not return Thursday from a trip to Chesapeake Bay.

"There has been extensive research since last night in cooperation with the police, the Coast Guard and the paramedics," he added.

For its part, the US Coast Guard said on Friday that it had suspended the search for two members of the Kennedy family who had been missing in Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States because none had been found.

On Friday, a statement said that the US Coast Guard received a report "seeing two people trying to return to shore in a boat" near Hering Bay, 16 km south of Annapolis, Maryland, and was "not seen again".

"NBC", citing a statement from the Maryland Water Resources Police, said that preliminary investigations revealed that the two people may have boarded the boat to the Gulf to retrieve a ball and were unable to return to shore.

The Coast Guard said in a statement that its agents searched for a distance of 5887 km from the air, sea and land for 26 hours.

Former Maryland governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, McCain's mother, said in a statement that her daughter had devoted her life to helping vulnerable people in society.

"With deep sadness, I inform you that the search for my beloved daughter Maif and my grandson Gideon has been transformed from the process of saving them to recovering them," she added.

At a press conference, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said, "On behalf of the people of Maryland, I express my deep sympathy for her and her family at this difficult time."

And Maif is the daughter of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest daughter of former Justice Minister Robert Kennedy, brother of President John Kennedy who was assassinated in 1963.

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The Kennedy family, one of the prominent families in American political life, has witnessed many tragedies.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the former President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

In June 1968, his younger brother Robert, who was well placed to win the Democratic primary for the presidential poll in Los Angeles, was killed.

David Kennedy's son David died at the age of 28 from a cocaine overdose in a Florida hotel in 1984.

In 1999, John Kennedy's son, along with his wife Caroline and her sister, Lauren, died in a plane accident he was driving in Massachusetts.

Sarsha Kennedy Hill, granddaughter of Robert Kennedy, died of an overdose last year for 22 years.