Local fishermen struggled through the night to return dozens of stranded pilot whales back to the sea on Wednesday after the animals mysteriously beached themselves along a Senegal coastal village around 9:00 in the evening.

One fisherman told a reporter, “We worked all night to try to drag them back into the ocean. We got about 80 back into the water with ropes, our (boats) and our hands.”

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