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Lebanon man hailed hero for holding Beirut bank hostage over savings

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“Similar incidents keep happening,” George al-Hajj, who heads Lebanon’s bank employees’ union, told AFP. In a separate incident in January, an angry customer took dozens of hostages at a bank in the Bekaa valley, demanding to be able to take his money out in US dollars.



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