DAR ES SALAAM, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Local residents and marine authorities joined forces to rescue a pod of more than 400 dolphins that became stranded along Vumawimbi Beach on Pemba Island in Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago, a local official said Friday.
Makame Omar Makame, director of the Marine Conservation Department in Zanzibar's Ministry of Blue Economy and Fisheries, said the rare and alarming incident occurred between the night of June 30 and the early morning of July 1, when disoriented dolphins washed up along the shallow shoreline.
