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Toronto police have charged a 66-year-old man with murdering two gay men and say they believe he is responsible for several other deaths.

The arrest comes a month after Chief Mark Saunders insisted that there was no evidence to suggest a serial killer was behind disappearances in the Village, a downtown neighbourhood known as a hub to the LGBTQ community.

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Homicide Detective-Sgt. Hank Idsinga said Bruce McArthur, who works as a self-employed landscape designer, was arrested at 10:25 a.m. Thursday morning connection with disappearances in the Village.

Although no bodies have been recovered, McArthur was charged with the first-degree murder of Andrew Kinsman, 49 and Selim Esen, 44. Kinsman was last seen on June 26, less than two kilometres away from the Village. Two months earlier, Esen was last seen one block north of the neighbourhood.

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“We believe he is responsible for the deaths of Mr. Esen and Mr. Kinsman, and we believe he is responsible for the deaths of other men who have yet to be identified,” Idsinga said.