Armed Robbery Hits Shouaifat Bank
Byblos bank in the town of Shouaifat was on Tuesday robbed by armed men who left two people injured in the second robbery of the same branch in six months.
The National News Agency said two masked men stormed the bank and opened fire in the air, injuring staff member Hiba Nasser in her ankle. Another employee, Kamal Jaber, was also wounded due to flying glass.
The incident caused panic among the staff and customers, NNA said. The robbers later escaped on a motorcycle with a good sum of money, it added.
The same branch became the victim of an armed theft in January when two masked gunmen robbed it and fled on a silver-colored BMW X5 with tinted windows.
The Societe Generale de Banque au Liban (SGBL) branch in Kfarshima was also robbed last week. The thieves escaped with $110,000 in cash.
A customer was slightly injured in the robbery that was very much similar to Tuesday’s Bank Byblos theft.
Two weeks ago, unknown assailants managed to make off with LL64 million and $40,000 from the Dbayeh branch of Banque Libano-Francaise.
The recent bank robberies started on June 14 when gunmen entered Federal Bank of Lebanon in the town of al-Damour and later escaped with LL100 million in cash.
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