13 whales have washed up on a beach in Co. Donegal.

At least four of the pod are thought to have died in the disaster on Falcarragh Back Strand.

Locals mobilised this morning to help the surviving whales - a number of whom have been re-floated.

While several others remain on the beach.

Local Councillor Seamus O'Donnell is on the beach.

Frantic efforts are continuing this lunchtime to save a group of whales stranded on a Donegal beach. pic.twitter.com/6AoaDHgj2c

— BBC Radio Foyle (@BBCRadioFoyle) July 7, 2014