It is thought that approximately 350,000 persons were in Hiroshima when the bomb exploded. This figure includes ordinary citizens, military personnel, and people from sur-rounding towns and villages who were mobilized for build-ing demolition work . It also includes people from Korea and Taiwan, which were then Japanese colonies, and mainland China. Some of there had been conscripted and forcibly brought to Hiroshima to serve as laborers in the war effort. Other foreigners present in small numbers included students from China and Southeast Asia and US prisoners of war . The precise number that perished in the bombing is un-known.Several estimates have been made public. Hiro-shima City estimates that by the end of December 1945, when the acute disorders had subsided, 140,000 had died.

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