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400 dead dolphins found off Africa coast

(Agencies/IMS)
Updated: 2006-04-30 11:00

At least 400 dead dolphins were found on Zanzibar's northern coastline early Friday, April 28, 2006, alarming villagers, fishermen and tour operators, residents said. Scientists worked Saturday to determine why hundreds of dolphins were stranded in shallow waters and later washed up dead along the shore of a popular tourists destination in Zanzibar's northern coast. Villagers and fishermen buried the remains of some 400 bottleneck dolphins - which live in deep offshore waters - whose carcasses washed up on Friday along a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) stretch between Kendwa and Nungwi. [Reuters]