Armed man demanding savings takes Beirut bank staff hostage, threatens to set himself on fire
Armed man demanding savings takes Beirut bank staff hostage, threatens to set himself on fire
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and FAY ABUELGASIM | Associated Press
BEIRUT — A Lebanese man with a shotgun took up to 10 employees and customers hostage at a Beirut bank Thursday and threatened to set himself on fire with gasoline unless he was allowed to withdraw some of his trapped savings to pay his father’s medical bills.
Soldiers and police converged on the area and sought to negotiate an end to the…