Mumbai:  A 30-foot whale washed up at the Juhu beach in Mumbai on Thursday night, reports NDTV.

The whale, said to weigh around four tonnes, was spotted after Indian time at about 10:00pm.

Police and forest department officials call it a Bryde’s whale after examining the animal.

The NDTV news says, cranes have been called in to remove the carcass.

Reports quoted an expert as saying that the whale may have died in the last two days.

This is the second biggest whale to have beached along the Maharashtra coast.

Last year, a blue whale washed up at Alibaugh and died after a 10-hour struggle to push her back into the sea.

Earlier this month, 45 dead short-finned whales washed up at a beach in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district. Around 40 more that were also stranded on the beach were saved. Officials suggested that the whales ended up in Tuticorin after travelling thousands of kilometres from the Pacific.