Twenty-four pilot whales have died in Massachusetts after becoming beached for a second time, frustrating the efforts of rescuers who had battled to return them to the ocean.

Rescuers have given up on efforts to save over forty pilot whales stranded on a beach around Cape Cod in America.

Rescuers tonight gave up extraordinary efforts to save more than 40 pilot whales that became beached in Cape Cod for a second time in two days, saying too many were sick or in shock from the ordeal.