A 93-year-old man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said yesterday.
A 93-year-old man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said yesterday.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified "hibakusha", or radiation survivor, of the August 9, 1945, atomic bombing in Nagasaki, but has now been confirmed as surviving the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier as well.
"He is the first one to be officially recognised as a survivor of atomic bombings in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki," said an official.
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