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Otto Warmbier, 22, the University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for over a year and a half, died Monday afternoon, his parents announced. Warmbier was in a coma when he was released last week and suffered a severe neurological injury. Warmbier was traveling on a student tour of North Korea when he was arrested last year and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a propaganda poster. PICTURED: March 16, 2016 - FILE PHOTO - Pyongyang, North Korea - American student OTTO FREDERICK WARMBIER (C) arrives for his trial in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). American student Otto Frederick Warmbier held by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for anti-DPRK crimes, the DPRK Supreme Court announced Wednesday. (Credit Image: © Guo Yina/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)

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Otto Warmbier, 22, the University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for over a year and a half, died Monday afternoon, his parents announced. Warmbier was in a coma when he was released last week and suffered a severe neurological injury. Warmbier was traveling on a student tour of North Korea when he was arrested last year and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a propaganda poster. PICTURED: March 16, 2016 - FILE PHOTO - Pyongyang, North Korea - American student OTTO FREDERICK WARMBIER (C) arrives for his trial in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). American student Otto Frederick Warmbier held by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for anti-DPRK crimes, the DPRK Supreme Court announced Wednesday. (Credit Image: © Guo Yina/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)