By Associated Press - Monday, April 3, 2017

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia police are searching for three boys who they say snatched a 13-year-old girl off the street and sexually assaulted her in an abandoned home.

Police say the girl was walking in a north Philadelphia neighborhood when the boys approached her around 5 p.m. Sunday before the attack.

The girl was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition.

The police department’s special victims unit is handling the investigation.

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