Hiroshima: Officials attend 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

Japan's leader Shigeru Ishiba and officials from across the world attended the annual ceremony in Hiroshima.

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Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony on Wednesday, along with officials from around the world and the city's mayor Kazumi Matsui.

Matsui warned of a global "accelerating trend toward military build-up... [and] the idea that nuclear weapons are essential for national defence", saying this was a "flagrant disregard [of] the lessons the international community should have learned from the tragedies of history".

World War Two ended with Japan's surrender after the dropping of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The bombs killed more than 200,000 people - some from the immediate blast and others from radiation sickness and burns.