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The whale carcass that had washed up on the Kommetjie beach.
Another humpback whale carcass had to be removed from a Cape Town beach after its body washed up onto the shore, this time at Kommetjie.
Another dead humpback whale found in Kommetjie in Cape Town. City says it will be removed tomorrow pic.twitter.com/XItrdvMrWj

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The city's environmental spokesperson, Greg Oelofse, said the 9 metre mammal washed up on Christmas Day.

"The carcass was successfully removed yesterday [Saturday]," he said.

Oelofse said it was not unusual to see the whales wash up.

"In recent months we had a large number of whales feeding next to the coastline. It not unusual to have a few carcasses left behind," he said.

It was the second whale to wash up on a Cape Town beach in less than a week.

On Wednesday, a 25-ton whale carcass had to be removed from Strand beach.

It attracted hundreds of spectators and the beach had to be closed while environmentalists transported it on a flatbed truck.

Source: News24