FISHTOWN (WPVI) -- A teenager has died after being pulled from the Delaware River in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia.
Police received the call around 5 p.m. Thursday about a person who went in the river near the 2400 block of Beech Street.
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Crews were able to pull the victim, a 16-year-old male, from the river just before 6 p.m.
The teen was found below the Ben Franklin Bridge near Race Street in Penn's Landing.
He was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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The name of the victim has not been released.