A woman was killed last night after falling from a high floor of a graduate student dormitory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, campus officials confirmed.
At about 9 p.m. last night, witnesses saw the woman fall from a window in a tower at the Westgate complex on MIT's west campus.
Two sources familiar with the incident, including a witness, said the woman fell from the 14th floor.
Paramedics from the Cambridge Fire Department and the Professional Ambulance Company were on the scene within minutes but were unable to revive the woman.
For a few hours, a small crowd gathered outside the dormitory as MIT officers and engineers secured the scene.
Police and the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office will conduct separate investigations into the death.
The police referred all requests for comment to the MIT News Office.
A spokesperson there said he did not know the identity of the woman.
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