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Thursday, June 22, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Mourners gather for funeral of student detained in North Korea
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHundreds of mourners gather to celebrate the life of an American Jewish college student who was detained in North Korea for over a year and died shortly after being returned home to Ohio in a coma.
Otto Warmbier’s brother, sister and friends were among the scheduled speakers for the funeral Thursday at a high school in his hometown of Wyoming, near Cincinnati.
A rabbi was officiating at the public service, which was closed to the news media.
— AP
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