Two teenagers from India will join their counterparts from Pakistan and the United States on Sunday in a youth exchange program in Hiroshima, organizers said Saturday.
A civic group in the city is holding the event to promote peaceful exchanges between young people from the nuclear rivals of South Asia. It invited four teenagers from India, but only two are expected to arrive Sunday.
One, aged 15, is from an area affected by radioactive pollution from a uranium mine.
The pair will join participants from Pakistan and the U.S. already in Hiroshima for the 13-day program, which runs through Friday. The group is scheduled to attend a peace memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on Tuesday to commemorate the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city.