Builders Working on a Home Discover Buried Bones — Which May Have Belonged to Children

Builders moving connected a location stumbled upon quality remains perchance belonging to children.

On Friday, Aug. 22, nan Lancashire Constabulary announced nan find of bones successful Lytham, England. The agency said nan findings "caused rather a spot of chat wrong nan community," and officials judge nan remains were portion of "an isolated humanities burial."

Police first learned that builders moving connected a location connected Cleveland Road discovered what they "thought to beryllium bones" connected Saturday, Aug. 15, astir 12:37 p.m. section time.

The remains person since been "confirmed to beryllium human," according to police, who added that nan bones "may beryllium that of children."

Officials said they person removed nan remains from nan spot and will proceed to "attempt to place who they" belonged to.

Detective Inspector Andrew Crook of West CID called nan findings an "incredibly sad discovery."

"We are continuing our enquiries to found nan personality of nan remains, including their property and really they died," Crook said successful a statement. “Whilst we are keeping an unfastened mind, I want to make it clear that we are not treating this arsenic suspicious. We judge astatine this shape that nan funeral is simply a historical one."

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"We would for illustration to convey nan homeowners and contractors for their patience whilst our enquiries were ongoing astatine nan property," he added.

Photos from nan scene, besides shared by nan Manchester Evening News and The Sun, show crime segment investigators successful hazmat suits visiting nan property, arsenic a conveyance remained parked retired front.

The Lancashire Constabulary, which did not instantly respond to PEOPLE's petition for updated accusation connected Sunday, Aug. 24, asked that anyone pinch accusation pertaining to nan funeral and find of nan remains get successful touch.

The U.K. incident comes 2 months aft a road building unit successful Arizona recovered quality remains while moving connected a road-widening project.

At nan time, nan unit was doing excavation work, and nan remains had been buried location for "well complete 20 years,” Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Angelica Carrillo told section outlet KOLD.