This man took hostages at a bank after he was unable to withdraw his own money to pay for his father's medical expenses. Lebanese people have had foreign currency assets frozen during the worst economic crisis in the country's modern history. Read more:
/A hostage situation in a Beirut, Lebanon, bank ended on Thursday after authorities agreed to grant a Lebanese gunman partial access to his frozen funds in exchange for releasing all six hostages.
"I'm in my office. He gets agitated, then calms down, then gets agitated again," Mr Halawi said by phone before he was released. His brother Atef al-Sheikh Hussein told journalists: "My brother has $210,000 in the bank and wants to get just $5,500 to pay hospital bills."A screen grab taken from a video shows Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein gesturing at employees of a local Bank in Beirut after he stormed the branch and held some people hostage.
"Similar incidents keep happening. We need a radical solution," George al-Hajj, who heads Lebanon's bank employees' union, said.
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