Outraged bank clients storm four commercial banks across Lebanon over withdrawal limits that have been imposed amid a financial meltdown
Three-quarters of Lebanon's population has plunged into poverty in an economic crisis that the World Bank describes as one of the worst in over a century.
On Tuesday morning, a Lebanese man armed with a pistol and a grenade entered the Chtaura branch of BLC Bank, demanding access to his $24,000 in savings, according to Depositors' Outcry, a group campaigning for angry depositors. They were angry over delays in having access to their salaries and fees they were being charged for the process, said their union representative Talal Hajer from outside the bank.
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