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Over 100 small whales wash ashore Tuticorin coast, several dead
Chennai, Jan 12: More than a hundred whales (short finned pilot whales) have washed ashore in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu since Monday, several of them feared dead.
These small whales could be seen lying on the 16 kilo meter long strech of the coast, some 600 km away from Chennai.
Several whales are battling for their lives. Local fishermen tried saving them by pulling them back to the sea but to no avail.
As per a TOI report, a local fishermen was quoted as saying, "The whales started reaching the shore in groups around 5pm. It is very strange. In 1973 when we were boys, we witnessed same phenomenon. However, not these many washed ashore then."
WATCH:
Around
50
Small
Fin
Whales
beached
in
Tuticorin
in
Tamil
Nadu
since
last
evening,
number
of
them
deadhttps://t.co/lyC7aMDZxv
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ANI
(@ANI_news)
January
12,
2016
Tuticorin district collector has also inspected the coast. Officials were investigating the reason for such a huge number of whales reaching the shore, he was quoted by the TOI as saying.
A team from the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park in Ramanathapuram has rushed to the spot.
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