An armed woman walked away with more than $13,000 of her own savings from a bank in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, after briefly holding up the branch, according to a local television station.
Hussein Malla / APAn armed woman walked away with more than $13,000 of her own savings from a bank in the Lebanese capital,, whom the local television channel Al Jadeed identified as Sally Hafiz, has been uploaded to Twitter. On the video, Hafiz said she demanded the money to help pay for her sister’s cancer treatment, according to the channel.
Jenan Mousa, a reporter for Al-Aan TV, also uploaded video of the incident, which showed a black-clad woman standing on a desk in a bank and tucking what appeared to be a gun into the belt of her pants.to withdraw his own funds to treat his sick father. Hafiz later told Al Jadeed that the gun was a toy, and that she was trying to retrieve money to finance the treatment of her sister who has cancer.
“I got to a point where I was going to sell my kidney so that my sister could receive treatment,” she said.
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