Woman with toy gun grabs trapped savings from Beirut bank

Panicked bank employees stand next to a window that was broken by attackers to exit the bank, in Beirut, Lebanon (Hussein Malla/AP)

A woman accompanied by activists and brandishing what she said was a toy pistol has broken into a Beirut bank branch, taking 12,000 US dollars from her trapped savings.

Sali Hafez told the local Al-Jadeed TV she needed the money to fund her sister’s cancer treatment.