Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers
Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, according to state-affiliated media in the Southeast Asian country.
Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...
The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...
Six foreign tourists including Simone White, a 28-year-old British lawyer, have died in the last two weeks from suspected ...
A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family ...
Laos party-goers are on edge and sticking to beer after six tourists were killed by 'methanol poisoning', with backpackers in ...
Out on the river there is little sign that the poisonings are stopping people coming to Vang Vieng. Late November is peak ...
The deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...
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The lawyer, along with two Danish tourists, an American man, and two Australian teenagers, are suspected to have consumed ...
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