Filmgoers in three cinemas in the Greater Toronto Area region of Canada were evacuated and some were treated for exposure to an unknown substance sprayed by masked men earlier this week. The three cinemas were screening Hindi films when the men in masks and hoods sprayed an “unknown aerosol-based, irritating substance into the air” in the cinemas on the evening of December 5.
The suspects in all the three cinemas fled before the police arrived. The three incidents took place within less than three hours on the same evening, giving an indication that they were linked.