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2 Pa. college students hospitalized after fall from rooftop

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two Temple University students were hospitalized after both were injured, one critically, in an early morning fall from a rooftop in north Philadelphia, police said.

Officers were called shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday after the 19-year-old women were found with multiple injuries in the fall from what WPVI-TV reported was the roof of a four-story building, police said.

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One was listed in critical but stable condition with multiple injuries at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The other was in stable condition at Temple Medical Center with leg and ankle injuries.

WPVI reported that several Temple students had gathered on the rooftop during a party when the two fell from the roof onto the sidewalk of a back alley.