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Hundreds of mourners turned out Thursday to pay final respects to Otto Warmbier, the US student imprisoned for more than a year by North Korea and sent back home in a coma that proved fatal. The 800-capacity auditorium at Warmbier's high school in the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming was packed to capacity, as were overflow rooms set up to accommodate additional mourners.
Nearby streets were adorned with blue and white ribbons as a show of support. Still more lined roads in Wyoming, a small town of 8,000 residents, and in Cincinnati, where the 22-year-old was laid to rest. Some waved American flags while others held up signs with supportive messages. Sentenced to hard labor early last year for stealing a political poster from a North Korean hotel, Warmbier was medically evacuated to the United States in a coma last week after nearly 18 months in captivity.
Doctors said Warmbier had suffered severe brain damage while in North Korea, and he died Monday at a Cincinnati hospital. President Donald Trump slammed Warmbier's detention and eventual death as "a total disgrace." "This process has been a window into both evil, and love and good," one of Ohio's two US senators, Rob Portman, told reporters before the funeral, which was closed to the media.
"Today we're seeing the good, and the love that will be expressed through this outpouring of support for Otto and his family." A long line of mourners formed in the early hours of the morning for Warmbier's funeral, held at the high school from which he graduated in 2013. "This is our season finale. This is the end of one great show, but just the beginning to hundreds of new spin-offs," read a quote from Warmbier's graduation speech included in the program.
The service, which lasted about an hour, concluded with Warmbier's casket being carried out as a bag-piper played the spiritual "Going Home." Warmbier's treatment by the reclusive North Korean regime sparked strong condemnation in Washington, and inflamed already high tensions stoked by Pyongyang's atomic tests and missile launches.

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