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Police release security images, seek witnesses in severed nose assault

TORONTO – Police have released security camera images of two men they say might be able to help solve an aggravated assault case where a woman’s nose was severed over the weekend.

Investigators are asking the men seen in the surveillance video to come forward and provide “assistance” in the investigation.

A 76-year-old woman had her nose severed on Saturday, August 24 around 2 p.m. after she stepped off a TTC streetcar and into an elevator at Yonge-Dundas Square.

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It was at that point a man attacked the woman while she was inside to go down to the subway. Her nose was reattached in hospital.

The man fled the scene and is described only as being 40 to 60 years old, and five-foot-six to five-foot-eight inches tall.

WATCH: (Aug 26) A woman was left seriously injured after an attacker severed her nose at Yonge/Dundas square. Lama Nicolas reports.

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