A Postman Who Survived The Nagasaki A-bomb Has Died At 88

Sumiteru Taniguchi (R) with the then-United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2010
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Tokyo (AFP) tôn nhựa pvc - Prominent nuclear disarmament campaigner Sumiteru Taniguchi, who was delivering mail in Nagasaki tôn nhựa pvc when the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945, died Wednesday at the age of 88.

Taniguchi, once considered a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer at a hospital in the southwestern Japanese city, according to Nihon Hidankyo, a group that represents survivors of the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

The then-postman, aged only 16 when the attack happened in the closing days of World War II, suffered horrific burns to his back and left arm that took years to heal properly.

He Ván đỡ gạch had been riding his bicycle some 1.8 kilometres (1.1 miles) from the epicentre of the blast. 

"All of a sudden, after seeing a rainbow-like light from the back, I was blown by a powerful blast and smashed to the ground," he said at a commemoration ceremony tam lay sang for the Nagasaki bombing in 2015.