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Elementary-aged student assaulted by stranger near Dorchester Cemetery: OPP

Members of the Bracebridge Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). The Canadian Press

Middlesex OPP say its major crime unit is investigating after an alleged assault near the Dorchester Cemetery in Thames Centre, Ont., on Wednesday.

OPP say a student walking to school was assaulted by an unknown man in the area at roughly 8:30 that morning.

Read more: 2 teens facing assault charges in fight at Medway High School, OPP say

Police told Global News the victim was an older elementary-aged student and that the child was not injured in the incident.

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The suspect is described by police as a roughly five-foot-nine white man in his 50s with short grey hair.

Police say the suspect was wearing an orange vest or shirt and had khaki-coloured pants.

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