The only survivor of the two atom bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 has died in Nagasaki of stomach cancer aged 93.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was working as an engineer and was in Hiroshima on a business trip when the United States dropped the first atom bomb on 6 August 1945. He was getting out of a tram when the explosion occurred and he was seriously injured.

The following day, he travelled to his home in Nagasaki. On 9 August, he was telling his boss about the Hiroshima explosion when the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

Of the 165 people who claimed to have survived both atom bombs, only Mr Yamaguchi could prove he was in both cities when the bombs were dropped.

photos: atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Wikimedia)