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This article is taken out of a UK newspaper.

ON August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was hit by an atomic bomb.
Three days later Nagasaki was hit, effectively ending World War II. MARTIN PHILLIPS reports on Hiroshima survivor Sadae Kasaoka.

SHE was 13 when the world horrifically vaporised before her eyes.

Sadae says: "Windows in my house blazed a reddish burnt orange.

"An instant later the blast from the bomb slammed me into the wall and thousands of glass splinters hit me.

"I saw human beings melt like ice sculptures. I saw stones liquefy. It was the end of the planet as far as I could see."

It was 8.15am when Hiroshima was all but wiped off the face of the earth by the world's first A-bomb attack.

Sadae ran to an air raid shelter, stepping over "bits of blackened bodies".

She says: "I still see the flames rising from charred bodies.

"I saw ghostly shapes moving towards us, bits of linen hanging down around them. Only it wasn't cloth - it was their skin.

"The days after the bombing were one giant funeral.

"Most of my schoolfriends were burned on a pyre.

Hiroshima stank like one gigantic barbecue.

"The cries of the wounded pierced your soul like needles. The cries for water were most heartbreaking."

Sadae never talked about her ordeal until ten years ago. She now travels the world with the Voices For Peace group in the hope there will never be a repeat.

Tsutomo Yamaguchi, who died earlier this year aged 93, survived BOTH nuclear blasts.

He worked in Nagasaki but had been on a job in a Hiroshima factory when the world exploded.

Despite being burned, he caught a train home and went to work.

As his boss scoffed at his story of devastation the second A-bomb exploded.

Tsutomo, later known as "Lucky", knew what was coming when he saw the blinding flash and dived for cover before the blast struck.