A brief hostage situation at Lebanon's BLOM Bank ended on Wednesday when an apparently armed woman and her associates left the bank carrying more than $13,000 in cash from her own account, a source from a depositors' advocacy group said.
Members of the Lebanese army stand guard outside a Blom Bank branch in Beirut, Lebanon September 14, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakirended on Wednesday when an apparently armed woman and her associates left the bank carrying more than $13,000 in cash from her own account, a source from a depositors' advocacy group said.
Wednesday's incidents come roughly a month after a man in mid-August held up another Beirut commercial bank to withdraw his own funds to treat his sick father. "I have nothing more to lose, I got to the end of the road. I went to the branch manager two days ago and said my sister is dying, she doesn't have time," she said, adding that the amount that she had been offered was inadequate.
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