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Mass dolphin beaching in Cornwall

Last Modified: 09 Jun 2008
By: Carl Dinnen

More than 20 stranded dolphins have died on the Cornish coast in the worst such incident for decades.

Rescuers have worked through the day to free the stranded dolphins, but in the end were only able to free seven of them.

It's believed to be the worst mass stranding of marine mammals in the UK for nearly thirty years.

The first pod swam up the Percuil River near Falmouth, Cornwall, before it beached in Porth Creek. Almost 20 of them have died. A second pod heard the cries of the first and tried to follow.

Teams of conservationists, divers and coastguards are now in the area attempting to send the dolphins back out to sea.