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 ...
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Laos police detain 8 Vietnamese hostel staff over backpackers' methanol poisoning deathsPolice in Laos have detained the manager and seven workers of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of six ...
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The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in ...
Six people have died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos ...
Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular ...
The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...
Southeast Asia has the "highest rates of methanol poisoning globally", said Al Jazeera, and this is often blamed on "economic ...
Death of second Australian teenager comes as the owner of Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng is detained by Laotian police ...
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