Hiroshima: Ceremony marks 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

At the ceremony, Japan's PM urged all countries to work towards nuclear disarmament.

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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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