Wrap-up: Balm for N-victims, 71 years late

Hiroshima: US President Barack Obama on Friday paid moving tributes to the victims of the world’s first nuclear attack during a historic visit to Hiroshima.

Mr Obama, the first US President to visit the site, said: “71 years ago, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.”

Mr Obama looked somber as he offered the wreath, lowering his head and pausing for a moment with his eyes closed before withdrawing and watching Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lay flowers.

“Why did we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to mourn the dead,” he said. “Their souls speak to us, they ask us to look inward, take stock of who we are.”

We listen to a silent cry,” he said.