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Rescuers race to save whales in Sri Lanka’s biggest stranding

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About 100 pilot whales are stranded on Sri Lanka’s western coast as rescue operations under way to push them back into water.

Rescuers and volunteers were racing to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka’s western coast in the island nation’s biggest mass beaching.

The short-finned pilot whales began beaching at Panadura, 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Colombo, shortly before dusk on Monday and within an hour, their numbers swelled to approximately 100, local police chief Sanjaya Irasinghe told the AFP news agency.

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The scores of whales that were found stranded on the Panadura beach (Sri Lanka) earlier today were pilot whales, a species known to strand for reasons not fully understood, leading marine biologist Dr Asha de Vos said.

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