Whale to be cut up for reburial

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Officials at a Rhode Island beach are trying again to dispose of a dead 15-ton whale that washed ashore.

Ron Bogle, who is the manager of the private Briggs Beach in Little Compton, says the 42-foot humpback will be dismembered and buried in pieces further from the water. The animal resurfaced Monday after workers buried it in a 6-foot hole at low tide over the weekend.

A spokeswoman for the Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration says the whale's bones will go to a researcher with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.

Bogle says the earliest workers can come to dismantle the whale is Thursday. It died at sea and washed up at Briggs Beach on June 14.