Armed man takes hostages at Beirut bank demanding return of frozen funds
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By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN An armed man held employees and customers hostage at a bank on Beirut‘s bustling Hamra street Thursday demanding his frozen funds be released, according to a security source and Lebanon‘s state-owned National News Agency.
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A customer armed with a rifle and threatening to set himself ablaze held bank workers hostage Thursday in Lebanon's capital, demanding to withdraw his trapped savings to pay hospital fees, security sources and a family member said.
By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN An armed man held employees and customers hostage at a bank on Beirut‘s bustling Hamra street Thursday demanding his frozen funds be released, according to a security source and Lebanon‘s state-owned National News Agency.
A Lebanese man armed with a shotgun broke into a Beirut bank on Thursday, holding employees hostage and threatening to set himself ablaze with gasoline unless he receives his trapped savings, a security official said.
The armed man is threatening to set himself ablaze unless the bank releases his money, which local media says he needs in order to pay his hospitalized father's medical bills
An armed man in Lebanon is holding hostages at the Federal Bank of Lebanon while demanding the bank give him deposits, according to a security source and a witness.
A Lebanese gunman demanding access to $200,000 he claims is stored in a bank in Beirut took up to ten people hostage Thursday before walking out, reports say.
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