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Philadelphia police are investigating an armed robbery of an 11-year-old boy as he walked home from school in Chinatown on Monday.

According to police, the armed robbery took place in an alley at the 900 block of Cherry Street at around 3:30 p.m., just after school got out.

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According to a witness who did not want to be identified, she called the police after the boy ran into a hair salon where she was at the time and said he had just been robbed by at least three assailants.

The thieves got away with around $300 cash and the boy's phone, the witness said.

She said she believes the attackers followed the boy as soon as he got out of school for the day.

"They told him, if you don

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