A 28-year-old Lebanese woman broke into the bank with a fake gun to withdraw her deposit. According to reports, Sali Hafiz attributed her action to the ability to pay for the treatment of her ill sister.
Sali Hafiz, who is an activist and interior designer, streamed the incident live on her Facebook page, and said she managed to free around $13,000 (about Shs50m) of the $20,000 (about Shs76m) she said her family had deposited.
The video shows her talking to bank employees at a reception desk before taking out the toy gun, prompting screams from those inside.
She withdrew the money by force and claimed that she had to take her sister for cancer treatment.
Reports indicate that bank deposits in Lebanon have been frozen for three years by the government since the country’s economic collapse in 2019.