BY: News Peddlers
An armed customer, Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, held bank staff hostage and threatened to set himself on fire in Lebanon's capital unless he received his frozen savings.
According to an anonymous security source, "he had a pump-action and flammable material, and threatened employees to give him his savings."
"The man threatened to set himself on fire and kill everyone in the branch, pointing his weapon in the bank manager's face," according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
George al-Hajj, the head of the bank employees' syndicate, revealed, "This is not the first such case." Similar incidents continue to occur."
"We need a radical solution, depositors need their money, and unfortunately, their rage explodes in the faces of bank employees because they can't reach management," he explained.
According to another security source, "a man in his forties poured gasoline all over the bank and closed the front door, holding employees hostage while demanding more than $200,000 in savings."