India, Aug. 6 -- Japan's Hiroshima on Wednesday marked 80 years of the US atomic bombing on the city, with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors.

The event was marked by a minute of silent prayer at 8.15am (23.15 GMT), the moment when the US aircraft, Enola Gay, dropped the deadly nuclear bomb 'Little Boy' over the western Japanese city on this day in 1945, AP reported.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba accompanied by other officials laid flowers at the cenotaph.

The ceremony was attended by several survivors of the ghastly day. It comes amid the United States and Russia using the nuclear threat repeatedly over Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

On August 6, 1945, the nuclear bomb sent...