The nightmare aftermath of Hiroshima: Parents carry burned children
past corpses and rubble in rare photographs taken during the days after
atomic bomb killed 140,000 people
- Horrifically injured locals are pictured dying on flattened streets strewn with corpses just hours after the bomb hit
- Radiation in the city was so intense that everybody pictured in the chilling images would have died soon afterwards
- The images taken 70 years ago today show mothers cradling their badly injured babies while covered in blood
- Japan is today remembering the 140,000 killed in the initial blast, as well the countless numbers who died later
- Dying: The haunting photographs are thought to have been taken shortly after the attack, 70 years ago today
