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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Paul Myers

UN chief Guterres warns of nuclear horror on 77th anniversary of Hiroshima attack

The Japanese city of Hiroshima was levelled and an estiamted 140,00 peopple died after an American war plane dropped an atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. Reuters/ Linda Seig / Matt Spetalnick

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned world leaders on Saturday they were playing with a loaded gun and urged them to back away from the brink of nuclear armageddon.

Speaking in Hiroshima on the 77th anniversary of an American war plane dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city, Guterres told the thousands who had gathered at the Peace Park: "Tens of thousands of people were killed at once in this city. Women, children and men were incinerated in a hellish fire.

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