BEIRUT - A brief hostage situation at Lebanon's BLOM Bank ended Wednesday when an apparently armed woman and her associates left the bank carrying more than US$13,000 in cash from her own account, a source from a depositors' advocacy group said.
It was just the latest in a string of heists as Lebanese depositors take matters into their own hands. “I am Sali Hafiz, I came today... to take the deposits of my sister who is dying in the hospital,” she said in the video. “I did not come to kill anyone or to start a fire... I came to claim my rights.”
A second woman who appeared in the video claimed they secured more than US$13,000, while a man standing beside her carried what appeared to be stacks of banknotes wrapped in plastic.
It's her money, as you noted, and she needed it to pay for her sister's cancer treatment.
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