Atomic-bomb victim Sadako's brother speaks at alma mater

Atomic-bomb victim Sadako's brother speaks at alma mater

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Masahiro Sasaki (C) speaks about his younger sister Sadako at the Noboricho primary school in Hiroshima, their alma mater, on July 6 ahead of the 50th anniversary of her death in October. Sadako, who died in 1955 of leukemia 10 years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was the model for the statue of a child in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. (Kyodo)

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