Students take peace pledge on Hiroshima Day

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : Aug 06 2018 | 11:20 PM IST

Thousands of studentsfrom 23 colleges of the SNDT and Mumbai University today took part in a peace rally to highlight the perils of the atomic attack on the occasion of the Hiroshima Day.

They took a pledgeto work for peace and a nuclear-free world.

The rally was organisedby the Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and NSS units of SNDT and Mumbai University to mark the 73rd anniversary of the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in the atomic attack during the second world war, said T R K Somaiya of the Sarvodaya Mandal.

The rally started from Azad Maidan in south Mumbai and concluded at Hutatma Chowk.

August 6 is observed as Hiroshima Day and August 9 as Nagasaki Day.

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First Published: Aug 06 2018 | 11:20 PM IST

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