Argentine police stop alleged terror attacks on Jewish community in Mendoza

Police in Argentina have stopped a terror group who were planning attacks on the Jewish community.

According to Reuters, the National Security Ministry said it had thwarted a "Islamist terrorist organisation” from planning attacks on the Jewish community in the city of Mendoza.

Argentina has Latin America's largest Jewish population and the community has faced a number of deadly attacks against it.

In 1994 an attack on a Jewish community centre killed 85 people in the deadliest incident against the Jewish community in Argentina's history and in 1992, terrorists targeted the Israeli embassy killing 22 people.