Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to reports from the Australian Broadcasting Corp.  Tourists reported illnesses after consuming alcohol in the town of Vang Vieng,

Six tourists including British lawyer Simon White, from Kent, tragically died following a mass poisoning at a hostel in Thailand - new details have sparked further questions about the parties at fault

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a growing list of countries warned of the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in the Southeast Asian country.