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Depositors storm four banks as Lebanon’s cash crisis worsens

Abed Soubra, who is allegedly holding hostages in a bank in an effort to get to funds in his account, looks at his mobile inside a Blom Bank branch in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Lebanese depositors have stormed at least five banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling growing chaos amid the country's economic meltdown. Friday's raids were the most in a single day and the latest in a spate of bank break-ins that reflect public anger at the country's strict informal controls on cash withdrawals. AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Suheila Kusheir, center, who entered with Abed Soubra, who is allegedly holding hostages in a bank in an effort to get to funds in his account, leaves a Blom Bank branch after she received $1,000 in cash from her deposit, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Lebanese depositors have stormed at least five banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling growing chaos amid the country's economic meltdown. Friday's raids were the most in a single day and the latest in a spate of bank break-ins that reflect public anger at the country's strict informal controls on cash withdrawals. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Abed Soubra, who is allegedly holding hostages in a bank in an effort to get to funds in his account, speaks to journalists inside a Blom Bank branch in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Lebanese depositors have stormed at least five banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling growing chaos amid the country's economic meltdown. Friday's raids were the most in a single day and the latest in a spate of bank break-ins that reflect public anger at the country's strict informal controls on cash withdrawals. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) People shout slogans against the Lebanese banks outside of a BLOM bank branch where a man who is identified as Abed Soubra, is allegedly holding hostages in an effort to get to funds in his account in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Depositors broke into at least four banks in different parts of crisis-hit Lebanon Friday demanding that they get their trapped savings as chaos spreads in the small Mediterranean nation in the middle of a historic economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Abed Soubra, who is allegedly holding hostages in a bank in an effort to get to funds in his account, speaks with media in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Depositors broke into at least four banks in different parts of crisis-hit Lebanon Friday demanding that they get their trapped savings as chaos spreads in the small Mediterranean nation in the middle of a historic economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Media and security gather outside BLOM bank branch where a man who is identified as Abed Soubra is allegedly holding hostages in an effort to get to funds in his account in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Depositors broke into at least four banks in different parts of crisis-hit Lebanon Friday demanding that they get their trapped savings as chaos spreads in the small Mediterranean nation in the middle of a historic economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Abed Soubra, who is allegedly holding hostages in a bank in an effort to get to funds in his account, speaks through a video call to people gathering outside the bank in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Depositors broke into at least four banks in different parts of crisis-hit Lebanon Friday demanding that they get their trapped savings as chaos spreads in the small Mediterranean nation in the middle of a historic economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Media and security gather outside BLOM bank branch where a man who is identified as Abed Soubra is allegedly holding hostages in an effort to get to funds in his account in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Depositors broke into at least four banks in different parts of crisis-hit Lebanon Friday demanding that they get their trapped savings as chaos spreads in the small Mediterranean nation in the middle of a historic economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Abed Soubra, who is allegedly holding hostages in a bank in an effort to get to funds in his account, speaks through a video call to people gathering outside the bank in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Depositors broke into at least four banks in different parts of crisis-hit Lebanon Friday demanding that they get their trapped savings as chaos spreads in the small Mediterranean nation in the middle of a historic economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Security men gather at the entrance of BLOM bank branch where a man who is identified as Abed Soubra is allegedly holding hostages in an effort to get to funds in his account in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Depositors broke into at least four banks in different parts of crisis-hit Lebanon Friday demanding that they get their trapped savings as chaos spreads in the small Mediterranean nation in the middle of a historic economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Abed Soubra, who is allegedly holding hostages in a bank in an effort to get to funds in his account, speaks with media in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Depositors broke into at least four banks in different parts of crisis-hit Lebanon Friday demanding that they get their trapped savings as chaos spreads in the small Mediterranean nation in the middle of a historic economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)