A Lebanese activist group on Thursday pledged to plan additional bank robberies to assist individuals in regaining access to their locked funds as the nation’s protracted economic crisis gets worse, AP reported.
The Depositors’ Outcry group accompanied the now famed Sali Hafez on Wednesday when she was able to collect about $13,000 from her savings to pay for her sister’s cancer treatment with a toy gun.
On Friday, A Lebanese man carrying a gun and a jerrican of fuel withdrew his frozen savings at gunpoint Friday, the third such incident in the crisis-hit country this week.
The incidents are occurring more frequently as Lebanon’s economic crisis persists., where the currency has lost more than 90 percent of its value on the black market.
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