Students are returning to a Jewish girls’ school in Toronto two days after it was struck with gunfire for the second time this year.
There is a police presence outside Bais Chaya Mushka elementary school, in the area of Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue West, as students head back to class this morning.
Gunfire rang out at the building around 4 a.m. on Oct. 12. Police said suspects in a vehicle shot at the school, hitting windows and other parts of the building.
Nobody was inside the school at the time and no injuries were reported. However the incident occurred as Jews were observing Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
Rabbi Yaacov Vidal, the principal at Bais Chaya Mushka, spoke outside the school Sunday.
“No parent should ever have to be fearful sending their child to school,” Vidal said.
He said the school will not be intimidated by threats of violence.
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