Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School is shown in this Google streetview image.Photo by Google Maps

'This is terrorism': Firearm discharged at Jewish elementary school in Toronto on morning of Yom Kippur

Police found evidence of gunfire at the scene. It was not known how many suspects were in the vehicle

by · National Post

A firearm has been discharged at a Jewish elementary school in Toronto on Saturday, on the morning of Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day of the year.

According to police, the incident occurred just after 4 a.m. near the school, located at Dufferin St. and Finch Ave. A motor vehicle “discharged a firearm at the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School,” police said in a post on X.

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