Argentine photo exhibit stirs memories of 1994 bombing attack on Jewish centre


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Jul 2019

FILE PHOTO: Rescue personnel work after an explosives-laden truck blew up outside the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) building on July 18 1994, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Julio Menajovsky/Handout via REUTERS

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Julio Menajovsky was one of the first photographers to reach the scene of a devastating bombing at a Jewish cultural centre in Argentina on the morning of July 18, 1994, that killed 85 people and wounded hundreds.

The photographer has now shot a new series of images, based on the stories of people affected by the bombing at the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) community centre in Buenos Aires, to mark the 25th anniversary of the attack https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-prosecutor-bombing/at-argentina-bomb-site-deja-vu-and-fading-hope-for-justice-idUSKBN0L72AK20150203.

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