Gunman takes hostages at Beirut bank to try to free his trapped savings

Man threatens to set himself on fire as he reportedly seeks access to his money to pay his father's medical bills A Lebanese man armed with a shotgun has taken hostages at a Beirut bank and threatened to set himself on fire unless he receives his trapped savings, a security official has said. The man, identified as 42-year-old Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, entered a branch of the Federal Bank in Beirut's bustling Hamra district carrying a canister of petrol and the gun and took six or seven bank emp...