PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say an 8-year-old girl who fell nine stories from a west Philadelphia apartment building has died.
Police say the girl fell from an apartment window on the ninth floor of the building at 7:44 a.m. Wednesday.
A police spokeswoman said medics rushed the girl to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was pronounced dead just before 8:30 a.m.
Police said the death is under investigation.
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