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Montreal police are searching for additional suspects after a group of people assaulted two off-duty officers early Saturday.

“Someone recognized them on a terrace, yelled out ‘civilian police, civilian police,’ and the next thing they knew, they were being circled and punched and thrown to the ground,” Inspector Marie-Claude Dandenault of the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal told reporters on Tuesday. “(They) were circled and attacked out of the blue.”

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The SPVM officers, dressed in civilian clothing, were attacked at Émilie-Gamelin Park near the Berri-UQAM métro station. They were immediately taken to a hospital. One suffered a mild concussion and both are bruised, Dandenault said.

So far, six people have been arrested in connection with the event. Two of those arrested were minors, a male and a female, one of which appeared in Youth Court.

“These six have been arrested, but there could be more,” Dandenault said. “The people who attacked them, for the most part, are all people who are known from our police services, so (they) may have interacted with (the officers)” in the past. Both officers work at Station 21, which is in the area where the attack took place.