Church prays for US student Otto Warmbier, ‘brutalised’ by North Korea and flown home comatose

Otto Warmbier, an American university student held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months and said by his family to be in a coma, was medically evacuated to the US on Tuesday as his local church continues to pray for him.

Warmbier, 22, a University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati, was detained in January 2016 and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in March last year for trying to steal an item with a propaganda slogan, according to North Korean media.

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