A frustrating development for rescuers only hours after 100 were successfully refloated.
The mass stranding of whales on a remote beach in New Zealand has taken a turn for the worse as 240 more arrived.
Earlier on Saturday, volunteers had refloated some 100 of the more than 400 pilot whales which beached on Thursday.
But a human chain, with volunteers wading neck-deep into the water, failed to prevent a fresh pod making landfall.
The whale stranding, at Farewell Spit at the top of South Island, is one of the worst ever in New Zealand. Dozens of volunteers turned out to help.
More than 300 of the 400 original arrivals died while medics and members of the public tried to keep survivors alive by cooling them with water.
It is hoped that those of the new arrivals that survive can be moved back out to sea during the next high tide in daylight on Sunday.
It is not clear why the whales continue to arrive on the 5km-long (three mile-long) beach next to Golden Bay.
One theory is that they may have been driven on to land by sharks, after bite marks were found on one of the dead whales.
Herb Christophers of New Zealand’s department of conservation told the BBC that the whales were trying to get round the top of South Island, but if their navigation went wrong they ended up on the beach.
In the shallower waters, the animals’ use of echolocation was impaired.
“It’s a very difficult place if you get lost in there and you are a whale,” he said.
Experts say that whales that become beached will send out distress signals attracting other members of their pod, who then also get stranded by a receding tide.
Sometimes the whales are simply old, sick, or injured.
Are whales attempting suicide when they strand themselves?
Andrew Lamason, from New Zealand’s department of conservation, said those refloated had been tagged, whereas the latest arrivals were not, indicating that they were a new group.
He said 20 whales had been humanely killed by conservation workers as they were in a poor condition.
Officials have also been looking into how best to dispose of the whale carcasses.
Mr Lamason said that simply towing them out to sea could be problematic as they may become gaseous and buoyant and float into populated bays.
The latest incident in New Zealand was first reported on Thursday evening, but conditions were too dangerous at the time to launch a rescue operation.
New Zealand has one of the highest stranding rates in the world, with about 300 dolphins and whales ending up on beaches every year, according to Project Jonah.
Many of these incidents happen at Farewell Spit.
In February 2015 about 200 whales beached themselves at the same location, of which at least half died.

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More than 100 people were injured as the 6.7-magnitude tremor hit the island of Mindanao.
At least four people have been killed and more than 100 injured after an earthquake hit the southern Philippines on Friday evening, officials say.
The 6.7-magnitude quake near the city of Surigao on Mindanao island damaged buildings and cut power to many areas.
Residents rushed to open areas and spent the night in parks, local reports said.
There was no tsunami threat from the quake, the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
The quake took place at a depth of about 10km (6 miles) about 13km east of Surigao, the US Geological Survey said.
The victims died after being hit by falling debris and concrete walls, provincial disaster-response official Gilbert Gonzales said.
A bridge and a hotel collapsed, power and water supplies were cut in some areas and Surigao’s airport was also temporarily closed because of deep cracks on the runway, officials said.
About 90 aftershocks had been recorded and more could follow but they were unlikely to cause significant damage, the Philippines’ seismic agency head Renato Solidum told local radio.
The Philippines is located on the geologically active Pacific “Ring of Fire” and experiences frequent earthquakes.

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About 300 pro-choice protesters gathered outside the Planned Parenthood office on Bleecker Street; across the street, there were about 50 pro-lifers.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Anti-abortion activists emboldened by the new administration of President Donald Trump are staging rallies around the country calling for the federal government to cut off payments to Planned Parenthood. But in some cities the demonstrations are being dwarfed by counter-protests.
Thousands of Planned Parenthood supporters turned out Saturday morning for a rally in St. Paul, Minnesota. In Detroit, about 300 people turned up outside a Planned Parenthood office, most of them supporting the organization.
About 300 pro-choice protesters gathered outside the Planned Parenthood office on Bleecker Street, chanting “fund Planned Parenthood, one in every neighborhood” and carrying signs that read, “My uterus, my choice.”
Across the street, there were about 50 pro-lifers. Some of them were praying the rosary, 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reported.
Pro-choice protester Rebecca Bigsby proudly said she was for abortion and funding for Planned Parenthood should continue.
“This is for low-income women, this is contraceptives, this is where kids go when they’re 16 years old instead of having babies,” Bigsby said.
“It is a woman’s fundamental right to control what happens to her own body and because of that the right to have an abortion for any reason under any circumstance is pivotal to the freedom of women,” another pro-choice protester said.
Pro-lifer Jesse Espinosa said the government should not be paying for abortions.
“Planned Parenthood should stop getting $500 million from the government when that money could be used in a better way, not abortion,” Espinosa said.
Both groups said they were for women’s rights, D’Auria reported.
Trump last month banned U. S. funding to international groups that perform abortions or even provide information about abortions. His newly confirmed health secretary, Tom Price, has supported cutting off federal money to Planned Parenthood.
Federal dollars don’t pay for abortions, but the organization is reimbursed by Medicaid for other services, including birth control and cancer screening.
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