DHAKA: Barack Obama has arrived in Hiroshima to become the first serving US president to visit the Japanese city since the 1945 nuclear bombing.

Obama flew into the Iwakuni US base nearby, after leaving the G7 summit, BBC reports on Friday (May 27).

He said that his visit was ‘a testament to how even the most painful of divides can be bridged’. But he also said that he will not be apologising for the attack.

At least 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, in what was the world's first nuclear bombing.

Two days later a second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing another 74,000.

BDST: 1438 HRS, May 27, 2016
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