The city of Hiroshima in western Japan marked the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack on Thursday. Three days after its August 6 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Hiroshima has fallen silent to remember victims of the atomic bombing.

The dwindling number of witnesses to the world’s first atomic bombing in Hiroshima were among those marking the 75th anniversary of the slaughter.

Survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima are dwindling in numbers but say they are still facing discrimination 75 years after the first use of the weapon in warfare.