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Investigators are searching for a man who police say masturbated and exposed himself in front of women on GO trains in Ontario.

Officers with the Halton Regional Police Service say the two incidents happened earlier this month on the Lakeshore West GO line.

The first happened on May 7 around 9:30 p.m. on a train headed from Union Station in Toronto to the Hamilton West Harbour station.

That’s when police say a male suspect “continuously masturbated over his shorts while staring at a female passenger.”

Then on May 10, police say the same man was travelling from Union Station to the Aldershot GO station in Burlington when the suspect exposed his genitals to another female passenger “and masturbated in her presence.”

Neither of the victims suffered physical injuries, police said.

Police have released multiple pictures of the suspect and are asking anyone with information to contact investigators.

The suspect is described as a Black male with a large to …

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