Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, arrives at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park in Hiroshima. US President Barack Obama (3rd R) walks off Marine One upon landing in Hiroshima en route to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to lay a wreath. Pic/AFP"Seventy-one years ago on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world waschanged," Obama said at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. By mid-day online correspondent | Posted 27-May-2016Tokyo: President Barack Obama on Friday arrived in Hiroshima, the first visit by a sitting US president to the site of the world's first atomic bombing. A TV host explains the visit of US president Obama with a map of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park in HiroshimaAt least 1,40,000 people were killed in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, in what was the world's first nuclear bombing.

Source: Mid-Day May 27, 2016 04:03 UTC