'Endangered blue whale' harpooned off Iceland coast

The slaughter of this whale has caused outrage

Mark Molloy

An Icelandic whaling company has been accused of slaughtering an endangered blue whale in a "deplorable act", provoking anger and condemnation from the international marine conservationist community.

Animal rights campaigners who photographed the whale's carcass, say it was harpooned and killed off the west coast of Iceland on July 8.