PHILADELPHIA — Additional human remains from a The 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of a black liberation group in Philadelphia were found at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The remains are believed to be those of 12-year-old Delisha Africa, one of five children and six adults killed when police bombed the MOVE headquarters, causing a fire that spread to dozens of townhouses.

The remains were discovered during a comprehensive inventory the Penn Museum conducted to prepare thousands of artifacts, some dating back more than a century, to be moved to modernized storage facilities.

In 2021, university officials acknowledged that the school had kept bones from at least one victim of the bombing after helping with the forensic identification process following the bombing. A short time later, the city notified family members that there was a box of remains at the medical examiner’s office that had been kept after the autopsies were completed.

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The museum said it was not known how the remains found this week were separated from the rest and immediately notified the child’s family of the discovery.

“We are committed to full transparency regarding any new evidence that may emerge,” the Penn Museum said in a statement on its website. “Confronting our institutional history requires an ever-evolving examination of how we can uphold museum practices to the highest ethical standards. The centering of human dignity and the wishes of communities of descent governs the current treatment of human remains in the care of the Penn Museum.”

MOVE members, led by founder John Africa, practiced a lifestyle that shunned modern conveniences, preached equal rights for animals, and rejected government authority. The group clashed with the police and many of their practices drew complaints from neighbors.

Police trying to drive members from their neighborhood used a helicopter to drop a bomb on the house on May 13, 1985. More than 60 homes in the neighborhood burned to the ground as emergency personnel were told to retreat.

A 1986 commission report called the decision to bomb an occupied sprawling house “unthinkable.” MOVE survivors received a $1.5 million judgment in a 1996 lawsuit.