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US student sent home from N Korea dies
June 19, 2017 at 16:46
Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea, has died after returning home in a coma, family says
Otto Warmbier, 22, returned to the US last Tuesday, but it emerged he had been in a coma for a year.
North Korea said botulism and a sleeping pill led to the coma, but US doctors have questioned this account.
Mr Wambier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for attempting to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel.
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