Funeral held for US student Otto Warmbier who returned from North Korea in coma

Otto Warmbier, the US college student was imprisoned for more than a year by North Korea and sent back home in coma that proved fatal. He will be buried on June 22 in his home state of Ohio.

Sentenced to hard labor for stealing a political poster from a North Korean hotel, the 22-year-old Warmbier was medically evacuated in a coma last week after nearly 18 months in captivity.

Suffering from severe brain damage, he died on June 19 in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.

President Donald Trump slammed Warmbier's detention and eventual death as "a total disgrace."

Warmbier's funeral will be held at Wyoming High School — located in the city of Wyoming, a suburb of Cincinnati — from which he graduated in 2013. He will then be buried in Cincinnati's Oak Hill Cemetery. Blue and white ribbons, the colors of the high school, were still tied to trees in the city of about 8,000 to show of support for Warmbier's family after Otto's recent return.

Warmbier's father Fred earlier told reporters that his son was lured to North Korea, as other US tourists have been, by tour groups run out of China. "Otto's a young, thrill-seeking, great kid who was going to be in that part of the world for a college experience and said, 'Hey, I've heard some friends who have done this. I would like to do this.'

So, we agreed to let him do that," Fred Warmbier said. "They lure Americans, and then they take them hostage and then they do things to them, and that's what happened to my son," he added.