Watch | More than 120 whales washed ashore on Tuticorin Beach

It started off at 50 whales, but with time, numbers suggest that more than 120 whales washed ashore in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin beach since last night. 31 whales have died, while as many as 60 whales have been rescued by the fishermen. The whales began washing up on beaches around 600km from Chennai on Monday night, the member of a combined rescue team of the Tamil Nadu departments of fisheries, forest and civil administration and police told Hindustan Times. Ten fishing boats and one mechanised boat are making sorties, each ferrying one whale at a time, to deep sea.