Girl dies from fall out a window of Newark home

NEWARK — A six-year-old girl has died after falling out of a third-floor window late Monday night.

Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, said the girl died as a result of her injuries of the fall at a home on 14th Avenue but did not disclose any details surrounding the incident.

The girl fell from the third-floor window just before midnight, according to ABC 7 Eyewitness News, and was taken to University Hospital. News 12 New Jersey, citing the Prosecutor's Office, reported the girl was jumping on a bed before the fall.

Contact reporter Dan Alexander at Dan.Alexander@townsquaremedia.com or via Twitter @DanAlexanderNJ.

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