~River My Aunt Saw in Hiroshima③~"75 Years Atomic Bomb" Dr.Soko DAY11/50

Looking at the end of the track from a distance, I could see the collapsed station building of Hiroshima Station. That was the landmark that indicated the direction. The railroad track was covered with broken rubble, and I headed for Hiroshima Station detouring off the track.

My grandmother's house is not near Hiroshima station, but at the station called Dobashi by changing to a tram at Hiroshima station. It takes about 15 minutes by tram. Nobuko searched for a tramway to Dobashi. The closest way would be to cross the bridge in front of Hiroshima Station.

"Maybe around here though.."
Due to the debris, Nobuko made a detour .She expected that there was a bridge ahead.
"There is no bridge in front of the station... the bridge is gone."
There was no station bridge in front of Hiroshima Station. It was burnt down without a trace. Nobuko returned to the original road and  to the front of Enkou Bridge. 

Then, she saw a lot of things floating in the river.
It was a person. There were numerous human bodies floating.

It seemed that there was a moving body near the riverbank.But most of all were just floating.

A small child, crouching at the edge of the river, entered the water and lifted his body of a person a little and looked into it. He seemed looking for someone.

Oddly enough, all the bodies floating in the river were bloating their stomachs like balloons. Countless inflated bodies are flowing river or gathering near the bank.
Nobuko was so scared.

She witnessed the sight of the river and desperately walked along the edge of the river to find a tramway .