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Toronto police are investigating a fatal crash involving a taxi and a skateboarder near King and Jarvis streets. (CBC)

A male skateboarder has been killed in a collision in downtown Toronto.

Toronto police say that the collision involved a taxi and a skateboarder.

Officers from the traffic reconstruction unit are at the scene of the collision near King and Jarvis streets.

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