00:00A major rescue operation in southern Taiwan on Tuesday, after a pod of pygmy killer whales washed ashore in Pingtung
00:06County.
00:22Once rescuers arrived, they found four of the 11 whales had died.
00:26At least 60 people, including Coast Guard members and volunteers, worked together to save the remaining seven.
00:32Rescuers dug support pits in the sand, splashed seawater on the surviving whales until they could be moved, then released
00:38them back into the ocean.
00:39Authorities say they will autopsy the four dead whales to find out how they became stranded.
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