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Ottawa police are warning residents to be careful when walking at night in the Hintonburg area after at least two reported robbery attacks in the past week.

Police say the first attack was last Friday at about 9 p.m. when a man walking through an alley between Spadina and Bayswater avenues was approached by three suspects.

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One of the suspects pointed a handgun at the victim.

The robbers stripped the victim of his wallet, phone, and some groceries which the victim had just purchased. The suspects then fled the scene.

Police describe two of the suspects as black males with Jamaican accents. They stood between five-feet 10 inches and six feet two inches in height with slender builds, and both wore bandannas on their faces. The third suspect was also a male but wore a neoprene face mask disguising his ethnicity. He was about five feet 10 inches tall with a slender build.

A day later, a woman was walking near the intersection of Bayswater and Gladstone avenues at about 11 p.m. when she was confronted by as many as four men who demanded she hand over her valuables.