The TTC is working with police to identify three suspects, two men and a woman who “accosted” two women wearing hijabs on a subway train around 6:15 p.m. at Sherbourne subway station on Wednesday.

The trio made abusive comments suggesting that the two women were terrorists. One of the victims was pushed, according to Brad Ross, executive director of the TTC.

Police are seeking the three suspects who fled after a witness pulled the emergency alarm on the train.

“The TTC condemns this behaviour and racist act utterly and completely.” Ross says, “We are working with police to identify these cowards.”

In an unrelated incident, Metrolinx reported that an offensive comment against Muslim women was scribbled as graffiti on a GO train.

The GO train was immediately taken out of service after the graffiti was discovered and has since been scrubbed, according to Metrolinx. The train will remain out of service until the investigation is complete.

“People were very upset,” says Anne Marie Aikins, spokesperson for Metrolinx. “We will not tolerate this behaviour and we deeply apologize to anybody hurt by this.”

Metrolinx is coordinating a response with the TTC and police to investigate both incidents.

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