Nanjing massacre survivor tally drops to 20

Another survivor of the Nanjing Massacre has passed away, reducing the number of recorded survivors to 20 people. The survivor, Guo Shiu Lan, was 94 years old and had survived the massacres committed by Japanese soldiers in 1937, during which her family was killed in an underground shelter. The Nanjing Massacre, which lasted six weeks and resulted in the deaths of approximately 300,000 unarmed civilians and soldiers, is remembered as one of the most heinous atrocities of World War II. China continues to commemorate the victims, with survivors recorded in UNESCO's "Memory of the World" register, leaving only 20 survivors still alive today.

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