Toronto police are searching for several suspects after a violent home invasion at a downtown condo building near the Rogers Centre early Monday morning.

At 4:50 a.m., police were called to the building on Navy Wharf Court in the Spadina Avenue and Bremner Boulevard area when a man on the fifth floor heard screams from the unit above him.

A police officer questions a resident of the condo building before letting her through the cordoned off area.
(Jamie Strashin/CBC)

When police arrived, they found the five occupants of the sixth floor unit tied up and gagged.

Det. Leslie Dunkley said the masked gunmen breached security and were waiting for the victims in the hallway, then forced them into their apartment.

Though the suspects were wearing masks, police said, two of the men were described as Asian by one of the victims.

Police said they had a number of people considered persons of interest in custody at 52 Division, but no charges had been laid.

The investigation appeared to have wrapped up around 7 a.m. after police brought a group of men to the station, but about 15 minutes later at least 10 heavily armed members of the emergency task force returned to the scene.

Officers re-entered the building to search for suspects, and also spoke to people in nearby condominium buildings, a number of which are linked underground.

Residents were questioned as they left the cordoned off area surrounding the building.