A crowd of protesters gathered outside the bank to support the gunman, with some hailing him as a hero. Lebanon is grappling with a severe economic crisis the country's worst in modern history.
A gunman who held 10 people hostage inside a Lebanese bank in order to access his own savings has turned himself into police on Thursday after an seven-hour standoff. Nobody was injured during the ordeal.Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, a food-delivery driver, said he needed to withdraw his money to pay for his father’s medical bills.On Thursday,
Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein agrees to surrender in exchange for bank giving $35,000 of his own money to his brother, in the latest painful episode in Lebanon’s economic free-fall
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A hostage standoff in which a gunman demanded a Beirut bank let him withdraw his trapped savings so that he could pay his father’s medical bills ended seven hours later with the man’s surrender Thursday. No injuries were reported.