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Guelph police are looking to speak to strangers who spoke to children

Anonymous tips can be left with Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Matt Carty / Global Guelph

Guelph police want to speak to two people who stopped their car and talked to young children in the city’s west end on Thursday.

A resident of a Westwood Road townhouse complex called police at around 11:40 a.m. to report the suspicious incident.

Police said a young girl and her brother were playing outside when a car stopped and the man in the driver’s seat began speaking to them.

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“The conversation continued for some time until an adult neighbour intervened and asked the children if they knew the male, which they did not,” police said in a news release on Friday.

The vehicle, described as a black Nissan Versa Note hatchback, left and was last seen heading towards Willow Road.

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Police said the driver was described as a man in his 30s or 40s with slightly curly brown hair, short facial hair and a yellow shirt.

There was also a female passenger, but police said no description of her was obtained.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 519-824-1212 ext. 7123.

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