SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union: Rescuers from various agencies here tried but failed to save a stranded 20- meter sperm whale that local residents earlier thought to be a sea monster.

Initial autopsies conducted on the whale showed it sustained injuries from shark bites and had wounds that it got after being stranded in the sharp coral rocks in Barangay Lingsat Marine Sanctuary.

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