Argentina to use new law to try bomb accused

Buenos AIRES: Argentine prosecutors on Tuesday applied to open court proceedings against 10 fugitives from justice in relation to a bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that claimed scores of lives in 1994.

The lead prosecutor in the case has applied to the federal court to make use of a new law that allows court proceedings to go ahead with the accused outside the country.

The attack on the AMIA cultural centre on July 18, 1994 claimed the lives of 85 people and injured a further 151

Argentine investigators have blamed Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, acting on the instructions of Tehran. (DPA)