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Ceremony marks 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

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A minute of silence was held in Hiroshima on Wednesday during a ceremony to mark 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony and urged all countries to work towards nuclear disarmament.

“We must make every effort to realise a world without nuclear war and ultimately a world without nuclear weapons”, Ishiba told the audience at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park.

Bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people – some from the immediate blast and others from radiation sickness and burns.


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