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Multiple Jewish-owned Toronto bakeries targeted in suspected hate-motivated attacks

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Toronto police cruisers are seen in this file photo. (Simon Sheehan/CP24)

Toronto police are investigating after two locations of the same Jewish-owned bakery chain were targeted in separate incidents Sunday morning, including one where a window was struck by gunfire.

In multiple posts to social media, police say officers were first called to the Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West area at around 8 a.m. after reports that a window at a Jewish-owned bakery had been struck by gunfire.

Investigators located evidence of a firearm discharge at the scene. However, no injuries were reported.

Roughly 20 minutes later, officers responded to another location of the “same Jewish owned bakery chain” near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue West after receiving reports of a broken window.

At that location, police say investigators found no evidence of gunfire and that no injuries were reported.

No suspect descriptions have been provided at this time.

Toronto police says its Guns and Gangs Unit and Hate Crime Unit are investigating the incidents, adding that there will be an update sometime at around 11 a.m.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

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