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| Comatose US student released by North Korea dies in hospital | Comatose US student released by North Korea dies in hospital |
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| Otto Warmbier, an American student held in North Korea for 17 months and recently released with severe neurological trauma following months spent in a coma, has passed away. | Otto Warmbier, an American student held in North Korea for 17 months and recently released with severe neurological trauma following months spent in a coma, has passed away. |
| “Unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today,” his family said in a statement on Monday afternoon. | “Unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today,” his family said in a statement on Monday afternoon. |
| READ MORE: N. Korea releases American student Otto Warmbier sentenced to 15yrs, now in coma | |
| Warmbier passed away at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Ohio at 2:20 pm local time, the family said. | Warmbier passed away at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Ohio at 2:20 pm local time, the family said. |
| Otto's parents Fred and Cindy Warmbier and the family released the following statement Monday afternoon: | |
| The University of Virginia student was arrested in North Korea in January 2016, near the end of a five-day trip, on charges that he stole a propaganda poster from a staff-only level of the Pyongyang hotel where he stayed. Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, but was released and medically evacuated 17 months later. | |
| When he returned to the US on June 13, he was “unable to speak, unable to see and unable to react to verbal commands,” the family said at the time, but his expression soon changed. “He was home and we believe he could sense that.” |