NAGASAKI, 9 August: The Japanese city of Nagasaki marked the 76th anniversary of the US atomic bomb on Monday, with around 500 participants, including Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, gathered at Nagasaki Peace Park to commemorate the event.
Nagasaki was destroyed in an atomic blast that killed 74,000 people, three days after the Hiroshima nuclear bombing.
Survivors and foreign dignitaries offered silent respect at 11.02 AM, the exact moment the second and the last nuclear weapon used in wartime was dropped.
Participants wore masks and maintained social distancing at the down-scaled event that was held amid the ongoing pandemic.
At 8:15 AM local time on August 6, 1945, a bomb was dropped by the US warplane and struck the city of Hiroshima.
Three days later, on August 9, 1945, the United States dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki in southern Japan.
The city estimates that around 210,000 people were killed by the attacks, leaving more than 150,000 injured. – Reuters
