A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima this week told of the torments she suffered as a result of the bomb and issued an appeal for peace ahead of the 55th anniversary of the attack Sunday.

Seiko Ikeda, executive vice president of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, told reporters at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan how she survived the attack by the "devil's weapon" and called for world peace.

The atomic bomb attack ultimately claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, the vast majority of whom were civilians.