US coroner says Warmbier who was returned from N’Korea died of lack of oxygen & blood to the brain

Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco has revealed at a news conference that American student Otto Warmbier who had been imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months died from lack of oxygen and blood to his brain.

According to Dr. Sammarco, Warmbier’s death on June 19 was due to an unknown injury that occurred more than a year before his death, most probably while he was imprisoned.

“We don’t know what happened to him and that’s the bottom line,” Sammarco said.

Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for trying to take from his hotel an item bearing a propaganda slogan, North Korea’s state media reported at the time he was arrested.

He died days after arriving back in the United States.

Read also: North Korea murdered Otto Warmbier, McCaine says

North Korea had blamed botulism and the ingestion of a sleeping pill for Otto Warmbier’s problems and dismissed torture claims.

In a interview with Fox News, Fred Warmbier said his son was tortured, “As we looked at him and tried to comfort him, it looked like someone had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth.”

Recall that days after Warmbier’s death, Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee the United States of America, John McCaine condemned the death of the 22-year-old saying the US will not ‘tolerate murder of citizens by hostile powers’.

McCain said Otto a University of Virginia student, who died days after his release from detention in North Korea was “murdered by the Kim Jong-Un regime”.

 

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