Remains of 2 children killed in controversial 1985 Philadelphia bombing by police returned to family, brother says
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The remains of two children killed in the 1985 bombing by police of a Philadelphia home used as the headquarters of a Black radical group have been returned to their brother, the man said Wednesday.
The remains of Katricia and Zanetta Dotson will be cremated and taken to North Carolina to be buried, Lionell Dotson told reporters outside the Philadelphia medical examiner's office.
"For the city to give me this is a momentous occasion," Dotson, who was 8 when his sisters died, told WCAU-TV. Katricia was 14 and Zanetta was 12. "It's not about me; it's about them. Finally giving them a resting place permanently – I can do this for them."
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