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Police tape demarking a crime scene.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

Police are looking for four men after a woman reported she was sexually assaulted during a home invasion at her Toronto apartment.

The alleged incident happened Monday at about 7:30 p.m. when the 46-year-old woman was in her apartment in the Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue area.

Police say the woman reported answering a knock at the door and that four men forced their way into the apartment, one of them armed with a gun.

It's alleged the apartment was ransacked, with the men taking cash, cellphones and designer purses, and that the woman was sexually assaulted before the men fled.

The first two suspects are described as a young-looking black man with a light complexion and a round face and a very thin black man in his 20s with sunken cheeks and small eyes whose face was covered but who was wearing a short, black, down-filled jacket, black pants and a black baseball cap.

The third suspect is described as brown with protruding wide-set eyes and wearing a light-green jacket and the fourth, whose face was covered except for the eyes and mouth, was wearing a beige jacket.

Police say they believe the men to be violent, armed and dangerous and are warning anyone who sees them not to approach them but to call 911.

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