Over 2,500 dead seals wash up on Russia’s Caspian sea coast

Environmental specialists are continuing measures to count the number of dead seals, but their cause of death is still unclear.

A dead seal on the shore of the Caspian Sea outside Makhachkala, Russia on 4 December, 2022 | Reuters Photo/Victoria Kubayeva

Moscow: More than 2,500 dead seals have washed up on the coast of the Caspian Sea in Russia’s Dagestan region, the natural resources ministry said on Monday.

“Along the entire coast of the Caspian Sea on the territory of the republic, specialists of environmental structures are continuing measures to count the number of dead seals,” Dagestan’s natural resources ministry said.

The cause of the deaths was not immediately clear but tests are being carried out, a spokeswoman said. -Reuters

 

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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