Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says world still ignoring tragedy

The mayor of Hiroshima led calls for the world's most powerful countries to abandon nuclear deterrence, at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb.

- Justin McCurry

As residents, survivors and representatives from 120 countries gathered at the city's peace memorial park yesterday, Kazumi Matsui warned that the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East had led to a growing acceptance of nuclear weapons.

"These developments flagrantly disregard the lessons the international community should have learned from the tragedies of history," he said in his peace declaration, against the backdrop of the A-bomb dome - one of the few buildings that survived the attack in 1945.