Global News published this video item, entitled “”Nothing more to lose:” Woman speaks out after storming Beirut bank to retrieve frozen funds” – below is their description.
A brief hostage situation at Lebanon’s BLOM Bank in Beirut ended on Wednesday when an apparently armed woman and her associates left the bank branch carrying more than $13,000 in cash from her own savings account, a source from a depositors’ advocacy group said.
The woman later identified as Sali Hafiz said the gun was a toy, and that she was seeking to retrieve money to finance the treatment of her sister who has cancer.
“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 insufficient.
Lebanon’s banks have locked most depositors out of their savings since a financial crisis took hold three years ago, leaving much of the population unable to pay for basic needs, and the government has so far failed to address the crisis.
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