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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Jessica Sansome

Four people including two children who died in English Channel named as 15-month-old remains missing

Four people who died in the English Channel when a boat they were travelling in capsized have been named.

They have been identified as members of a Kurdish-Iranian family.

The BBC said Rasoul Iran-Nejad, 35, Shiva Mohammad Panahi, 35, Anita, nine, and Armin, six, died after trying to make the journey from France to the UK.

Their 15-month-old boy Artin is believed to still be missing.

French authorities had said that the children who died were aged five and eight.

They were from Sardasht, a city in western Iran, near to the border with Iraq, the BBC said.

More than a dozen people have been taken to hospital in Calais and Dunkirk after the boat capsized on Tuesday near Dunkirk.

A search operation was launched but French emergency services have said there is no chance of finding more survivors.

The search was called off on Tuesday night because of darkness and bad weather and did not begin again on Wednesday, an official with the French maritime agency for the Channel and North Sea region said.

The people on board are thought to have been trying to cross to the UK, despite wind gusts of up to 18mph.

An investigation was also opened by the public prosecutor in Dunkirk to try to identify the cause of the sinking.

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