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Student dies days after release from North Korea

Student dies days after release from North Korea
Otto Frederick Warmbier in Pyongyang, North Korea on Feb. 29, 2016. (Photo: Kyodo/Reuters)

The American student who was released last week after being held in captivity for more than 15 months in North Korea has died, his family says.

22-year-old Otto Warmbier returned to the US last Tuesday, but it emerged he had been in a coma for a year.

North Korea said botulism led to the coma, but a team of US doctors who assessed him dispute this account.

Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for attempting to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel.

He had suffered severe brain damage, and was medically evacuated from North Korea on 13 June to a hospital in his home city of Cincinnati. Ohio.

It is unclear how he fell ill.

The Warmbier family has blamed his death on torture they say he suffered in North Korea.

Source: BBC

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