The boat was carrying migrants from Dunkirk, in the Nord department on the coast of northern France near Calais, the French Regional Rescue and Surveillance Operational Center said in a statement on Tuesday.
Gaëtan Genel, a communications officer for the Nord department authorities, told CNN on Wednesday that there were four victims: one adult man, one adult woman, and two children aged five and eight years old.
Fifteen people were taken to hospital in Calais and Dunkirk with one man in a condition of “absolute urgency,” according to Genel.
Nord maritime authorities said in a separate…
