Eight teenage girls charged with murder in Toronto stabbing death

The suspects - ages 13 to 16 - were said to have met via social media before gathering downtown and allegedly swarming' victim

Eight teenage girls who appear to have met on social media have been charged with second-degree murder over the death of a 59-year-old man who was stabbed in downtown Toronto.

Police allege that the girls assaulted and stabbed the man at a plaza near the main rail station in Canada's largest city early on Sunday morning. Three of the girls are 13, three are 14 and two are 16, police said on Tuesday.