The Japanese city of Nagasaki is commemorating the 68 years since it was hit by an atomic bomb dropped by an American bomber on August 9 1945.

It was an act that led to the deaths of more than 150,000 people, and Japan's surrender that brought World War II to an end.

Politicians, diplomats, children and elderly survivors gathered at Nagasaki's Peace Park.

An official record of Nagasaki's victims is updated annually as more people die from the effects of radiation and old age.

The bomb was dropped three days after the similar bombing of Hiroshima.

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