WASHINGTON: Doctors treating Otto Warmbier, the comatose US student released from North Korean detention this week, said Thursday the 22-year-old had suffered extensive brain damage, the cause of which remains unknown.

Neurologist Daniel Kanter told a news conference in Warmbier's home city of Cincinnati, Ohio that his neurological condition was best described "as a state of unresponsive wakefulness."

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