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Police seek six suspects after Markham financial institution and customers robbed at gunpoint

The York Regional Police (YRP) Hold-Up Unit is on the hunt for six suspects who robbed a financial institution and its customers at gunpoint in Markham on Monday.

Officers responded to a commercial robbery near Markham Road and Highlen Avenue at approximately 5:30 p.m.

Six suspects entered the premises waving firearms and made the customers get down on the ground as they robbed the financial institution and the customers present, police said in a news release.

The suspects fled the scene in a “dark sport utility vehicle” with a “quantity of” stolen cash and cellphones.

One employee was assaulted and taken to a local hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

Three of the suspects were carrying firearms, police said, and all were wearing dark, hooded sweatshirts, gloves and masks in an effort to conceal their identities.

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