
Residents of Barangay (village) Dampay discovered the carcass of the whale floating some 100 kilometers from the coastline at 9 a.m., said SPO4 Tomas Mejos, team leader of a unit deployed by the Candelaria Police Station.
"The whale was about the size of a minibus," Mejos said in a telephone interview.
The species of the whale has yet to be identified, Mejos added.
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Luzon has sent a team to determine the cause of the whale's death, said Nelson Bien, chief of the agency's fisheries resources and management division.
As of 1 p.m., residents were still towing the animal to the shore, Mejos added.
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