Thousands Pay Tribute To Otto Warmbier In Ohio

Otto Warmbier (File photo)

Thousands of friends and family members gathered in suburban Cincinnati on Thursday to say goodbye to an American student, Otto Warmbier.

   Warmbier, 22, died days after being returned to the United States in a coma following 17 months in captivity in North Korea.

He was arrested in North Korea while visiting as a tourist. He was brought back to the U.S. last week with brain damage, in what doctors described as a state of “unresponsive wakefulness,” and died on Monday.
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Some 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 in the day at a local cemetery.
Although the exact cause of his death is unclear, officials at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where he was treated declined to provide details while his family asked that the Hamilton County Coroner not to perform an autopsy.