Philadelphia Front Page News Justice News Brief: Penn Museum finds remains of girl killed in 1985 MOVE bombing, renewing anger from West Philly community forwarded by KYW Newsradio frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — More human remains from the 1985 MOVE bombing have been discovered at the Penn Museum.
After completing a comprehensive inventory of the biological anthropology section, museum officials discovered the suspected remains of 12-year-old Delisha Africa, one of the five children and six adults killed on May 13, 1985, when the Philadelphia Police Department conducted an air strike over the Cobbs Creek headquarters of Black liberation group MOVE during an armed standoff. More than 60 homes in the neighborhood burned to the ground.
In 2021, University of Pennsylvania officials issued a public apology, acknowledging that the institution had kept bones from at least one victim after assisting in the forensic investigation that followed the bombing.
Shortly after that, a box of remains from bombing victims was uncovered at the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office. The city said they had been kept after autopsies were completed.
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