Otto body shows no clear signs of torture - coroner

The coroner who examined Otto Warmbier's body has said there is no clear indication he had been tortured during his detention in North Korea.

The comments contradict statements made by the US student's parents in a TV interview with Fox on Tuesday.

They said North Korea had "systematically tortured" their son after he was jailed for stealing a sign during a holiday in Pyongyang in 2016.

The Ohio county coroner said he had died from lack of oxygen to the brain. "We don't know what happened to him and that's the bottom line," Dr Lakshmi Sammarco said in a news conference on Wednesday.

Otto Warmbier died in June shortly after being released by North Korea on medical grounds. He arrived home in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness". North Korea said he contracted botulism shortly after being sentenced, but US doctors have disputed this.

UCJ, UNILORIN.