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Posted: Sunday, 30 August 2009 7:01AM
One Dead, One Critical After Fall from Center City Balcony
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by KYW’s Al Novack
One man is dead and a woman was battling for her life after police say they accidentally fell from the balcony of a center city Philadelphia apartment.
Philadelphia detectives say a structural defect in the apartment balcony is to blame for the accidental fall, just before 3:00am on Sunday.
According to investigators, a 25-year-old man and an unidentified woman apparently stepped outside their fourth-floor apartment, above Monks Bar in the 200 block of South 16th Street, when a steel railing suddenly gave way as they leaned against it.
Both victims fell four floors to the alleyway below. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman, who was not immediately identified, was listed in very critical condition at Hahnemann University Hospital.
Engineers from the city's Department of Licenses and Inspections were expected to investigate what caused the railing defect.
City inspectors closed Monks for "code violations" in the building where the bar is located.
(Photo by KYW's Jim Melwert)
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