Thousands attend funeral for North Korean victim Otto Warmbier
Wyoming — Thousands of friends and family members gathered in suburban Cincinnati on Thursday to say goodbye to an American student who died days after being returned to the US in a coma following 17 months in captivity in North Korea. Otto Warmbier, 22, was arrested in the reclusive communist country while visiting as a tourist. He was brought back to the US last week with brain damage, in what doctors described as state of "unresponsive wakefulness", and died on Monday. About 2,500 mourners lined up early on Thursday morning at Wyoming High School, in the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming. Warmbier attended the school. He will be buried later at a local cemetery. The exact cause of his death is unclear. Officials at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he was treated, declined to provide details, and Warmbier’s family on Tuesday asked that the Hamilton County Coroner not perform an autopsy. "We have also seen evil and that is how Otto Warmbier was treated. He should have ...
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