Nervous Cypriots queue at cash machines

Nervous depositors in Cyprus rushed to ATM machines today to drain their accounts following a bailout agreement with international creditors that includes a levy on all the country's bank accounts.

Nervous Cypriots queue at cash machines

Nervous depositors in Cyprus rushed to ATM machines today to drain their accounts following a bailout agreement with international creditors that includes a levy on all the country's bank accounts.

Lines formed at many ATMs as people scrambled to pull their money out after word that the €10bn rescue package Cyprus agreed with its euro area partners and the International Monetary Fund included one-off levy on deposit, an unprecedented step in the eurozone crisis.

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