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TOKYO – TSUTOMU Yamaguchi, who survived the US atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to tell the world of the horrors, has succumbed to stomach cancer, his family said on Wednesday.

Yamaguchi, 93, the only person officially recognised as a survivor of the two attacks, died on Monday at a hospital in Nagasaki.

‘I thanked my father for leaving us with the treasure that was his effort to call for world peace,’ his daughter Toshiko Yamasaki, 61, told AFP by telephone. He is survived by a son, two daughters and five grandchildren.

‘It is to our regret that we have lost a valuable story teller,’ Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue said in a statement. ‘His painful experience of being bombed twice in Hiroshima and Nagasaki drew worldwide attention.’

Yamaguchi, then an engineer at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Nagasaki, was exposed to the first atomic blast in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when he was there for a work assignment. He was on a street about two kilometres from ground zero. With severe burns to his arms, he returned to Nagasaki two days later to join his family.

Yamaguchi was exposed to the second atomic explosion the next day when he was reporting about the Hiroshima holocaust at his work place, about three kilometers from the epicentre. ‘I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me there,’ he said later. — AFP

Source: Straits Times, 2010

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