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BBC OS: 2022/09/16 16:06 GMT: Bank hold ups in Lebanon

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Bank hold ups in Lebanon

2022/09/16 16:06 GMT

2022/09/16 16:06 GMT: Bank hold ups in Lebanon

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There have been several incidents with customers attempting to retrieve their savings

There have been several incidents with customers attempting to retrieve their savings.

Banks in Lebanon say they will close for three days next week following a series of hold ups by customers attempting to retrieve their savings from their accounts.  Lebanese banks imposed severe restrictions on withdrawals when the country’s economic crisis began three years ago. We hear how people are experiencing the crisis.

The police chief in Ukraine has said that most of the four hundred and fifty bodies discovered at a site in the recently liberated city of Izyum are civilians. We speak to our reporter who has been in the area recently taken back by Ukraine, and we hear from Ukrainians in the towns and villages that were occupied by Russian forces.

A young Iranian woman who fell into a coma while being detained by the morality police in Tehran has died. We find out more from our colleague with BBC Persian Service. 

A mass military mobilisation has begun in Eritrea. Reservists have been recalled to the army and moved quickly to the front lines along the country's shared border with Ethiopia's Tigray region. Our correspondent explains. 

(Photo: People stand outside a Blom Bank branch in the Lebanese capital's Tariq al-Jdideh neighborhood. Credit: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)

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