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The Ottawa Fire Services Hazmat team says a skunk is likely responsible for a foul odour that caused a number of residents to feel nauseous at a Cumberland Avenue apartment building Wednesday.

Eleven people were assessed by paramedics following the midmorning call.

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First responders to the scene detected “a very strong odour of skunk” outside the three-storey commercial-residential structure at 447 Cumberland Ave.

Hazmat readings were negative both on Cumberland and at the building next door on Besserer Street.

“Seems it was the skunk odour that was the culprit,” the fire service said in a communiqué.