KWALE, Kenya (AP) — A Budapest boxing club said on Wednesday that one of its board members and his family were among the 11 killed in a plane crash in Kenya the day before, while en route to Maasai Mara National Reserve.
The Vasas SC sports club said in a statement that Gyula Süllős was “a decades-long supporter” and president of its boxing program.
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Red Cross officials collect samples Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Red Cross officials collect samples Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 at the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Aircraft Accident Investigators inspect the scene of a plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Kenya Principal Secretary State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development Teresia Mbaika, center, and other top government officials inspect at the scene of a plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Kenya Principal Secretary State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development Teresia Mbaika (second right) and other top government officials inspect Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
All passengers on board the Cessna Caravan, eight Hungarians, two Germans and their Kenyan pilot, died when the aircraft crashed in a hilly, forested area of Kenya’s coastal Kwale County, shortly after taking off from an airstrip in the town of Diani.
Kenya’s aviation department secretary, Terry Mbaika, said Wednesday that some of the bodies are yet to be recovered. The roads leading to the crash site are not paved and the Kenyan coastal side has witnessed heavy rain.
Mbaika also said the investigation would take 30 days, promising to “do everything possible” to ensure its transparency.
The airline, Mombasa Air Safari, said in a statement Tuesday the pilot failed to communicate upon departure and that the airport control tower tried to reach him for 30 minutes before the plane was located.
Hungary's Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Tuesday on social media that the Hungarian victims included two families. Two children among the dead, he wrote.
Kenya’s performance in accident investigation fell below the global average, according to the most recent safety oversight audit for Kenya posted on the International Civil Aviation Organization site in 2018.
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Associated Press writer Justin Spike in Budapest, Hungary, contributed to this report.
Red Cross officials collect samples Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Red Cross officials collect samples Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 at the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Aircraft Accident Investigators inspect the scene of a plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Kenya Principal Secretary State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development Teresia Mbaika, center, and other top government officials inspect at the scene of a plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Kenya Principal Secretary State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development Teresia Mbaika (second right) and other top government officials inspect Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on social media that the U.S. Coast Guard had boarded the Motor Tanker Veronica early Thursday. She said the ship had previously passed through Venezuelan waters and was operating in defiance of President Donald Trump’s "established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.”
U.S. Southern Command said Marines and sailors launched from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to take part in the operation alongside a Coast Guard tactical team, which Noem said conducted the boarding as in previous raids. The military said the ship was seized “without incident.”
Noem posted a brief video that appeared to show part of the ship’s capture. The black-and-white footage showed helicopters hovering over the deck of a merchant vessel while armed troops dropped down on the deck by rope.
The Veronica is the sixth sanctioned tanker seized by U.S. forces as part of the effort by Trump’s administration to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela’s oil products and the fourth since the U.S. ouster of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid almost two weeks ago.
The Veronica last transmitted its location on Jan. 3 as being at anchor off the coast of Aruba, just north of Venezuela’s main oil terminal. According to the data it transmitted at the time, it was partially filled with crude.
The ship is currently listed as flying the flag of Guyana and is considered part of the shadow fleet that moves cargoes of oil in violation of U.S. sanctions.
According to its registration data, the ship also has been known as the Galileo, owned and managed by a company in Russia. In addition, a tanker with the same registration number previously sailed under the name Pegas and was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for moving cargoes of illicit Russian oil.
As with prior posts about such raids, Noem and the military framed the seizure as part of an effort to enforce the law. Noem argued that the multiple captures show that “there is no outrunning or escaping American justice.”
However, other officials in Trump's Republican administration have made clear that they see the actions as a way to generate cash as they seek to rebuild Venezuela’s battered oil industry and restore its economy.
Trump met with executives from oil companies last week to discuss his goal of investing $100 billion in Venezuela to repair and upgrade its oil production and distribution. His administration has said it expects to sell at least 30 million to 50 million barrels of sanctioned Venezuelan oil.
This story has been corrected to show the Veronica is the fourth, not the third, tanker seized by U.S. forces since Maduro's capture.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference at Harry Reid International Airport, Nov. 22, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill, File)
