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Toronto police are investigating after a Jewish girls’ school in North York was hit by gunfire for the second time this year.

Just after 4 a.m., police received a report about a smashed window at Bais Chaya Mushka on Chesswood Drive near the area of Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue West.

Officers arrived and later learned that suspects in a vehicle discharged a firearm at the school.

“Shots have been fired from Chesswood Drive, which struck the window causing the damage to it and other parts of the building,” Insp. Paul Krawczyk with Toronto police’s integrated gun and gangs task force told reporters Saturday afternoon.

He said no one was inside the school at the time, and no one was injured as a result of the gunfire.

Krawczyk said there would be an enhanced police presence in the area as officers gather evidence and review video footage to determine what transpired.

He noted …

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