DHAKA: US President Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month - the first serving president to travel to the Japanese city, which was hit by a US nuclear attack in 1945.

The visit will be part of an Asian trip that will also take in Vietnam, reports the BBC.

The Hiroshima bombing on 6 August 1945 killed 140,000 people. Along with a second bombing on Nagasaki - it is credited with ending World War Two.

Jimmy Carter has visited Hiroshima, but after the end of his presidency.

BDST: 1946 HRS, MAY 10, 2016
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