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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Timour Azhari, Issam Abdallah and Laila Bassam

Depositors hold up two Lebanese banks to grab their own money

Members of the Lebanese army stand guard outside a Blom Bank branch in Beirut, Lebanon September 14, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Two seemingly armed and desperate Lebanese depositors held up banks on Wednesday to force access to their own money, which has been blocked during a national financial meltdown.

One woman with a gun and some associates briefly held hostages at a branch of BLOM Bank in the capital Beirut, before leaving with more than $13,000 in cash from her account, a source from a depositors' advocacy group said.

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