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270 caught in sandbar ‘trap’
WHALES thrash around in frustration after becoming trapped off a beach in one of the worst strandings in a decade.
Around 270 pilot whales were found hemmed in between sandbars and the shore. Ninety have already died while rescuers returned 25 to the sea yesterday in Tasmania off Australia. More than 60 rescuers are racing to save the other whales which are up to 23ft long and weigh up to three tons. It is unclear why they became trapped but experts say the group may have followed a ‘misadventure by one or two of them’. It is the largest stranding in Tasmania since 2009 when 200 whales became stuck.