A toddler whose body washed up on the southwest coast of Norway on New Year's Day has been identified as a boy who died with his family while trying to cross the English Channel, Norwegian police say. Artin Irannezhad, who police said was 18 months old when he died, drowned with four family members when their boat sank while trying to cross to Britain from France in October. His body, clothed in a blue overall and life jacket, drifted across the North Sea to Norway and his remains washed up in the municipality of Karmoey. He is of Iranian origin and disappeared during a shipwreck in the English Channel off the coast of France on Oct. 27," Camilla Tjelle Waage, head of investigations at the sheriff's office in Karmoey, said in a statement. "This story is tragic, but at least it's good to be able to give the relatives an answer," said Tjelle Waage.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 07, 2021 18:22 UTC