PHILADELPHIA – A day after Philadelphia's health commissioner was forced to resign over the cremation of partial remains belonging to victims of a 1985 bombing of the headquarters of a Black organization, the city now says those remains were never actually destroyed.
Mayor Jim Kenney released a statement late Friday saying that the remains of MOVE bombing victims thought to have been cremated in 2017, under orders from Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, were located at the medical examiner's office that afternoon.
Among the 11 slain when police bombed MOVE's headquarters, causing a fire that spread to more than 60 row homes, were five children. “I am relieved that these remains were found and not destroyed, however I am also very sorry for