Japan remembers Hiroshima

Published: 6 August 2009 y., Thursday

The Japanese city of Hiroshima held its annual peace memorial ceremony Thursday to remember the first atomic bomb ever used against human beings on the day 64 years ago.  

 

Tens of thousands of people from nearly 60 countries offered their prayers and a moment of silence at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, near "ground zero" where the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, leaving thousands dead.

 

Šaltinis: Reuters
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