Passed out tourists are wheeled back to their hotels in trolleys by police in Thailand - following deadly poisonings that claimed six lives in nearby Laos
Authorities stepped in to help a German and Australian tourists back to their rooms after concerned partygoers failed to ...
Methanol poisoning: how Laos horror happened
Southeast Asia has the "highest rates of methanol poisoning globally", said Al Jazeera, and this is often blamed on "economic ...
8 arrested in Laos after 6 tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning
Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to ...
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Australian teen and British woman who drank tainted alcohol in Laos have died, bringing toll to 5
An Australian teenager and a British woman have died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime ...
Six people have died in Laos from drinking tainted alcohol – what you need to know about methanol
The problem with methanol poisoning is that it looks very much like alcohol poisoning. And delays in treatment can be fatal.
Father of Australian teen who died in Laos urges government ‘to protect others’ from tainted alcohol
The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...
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Those detained include management and staff at Nana Backpackers Hostel, where two Australian teenagers stayed before dying from suspected methanol poisoning. A grieving backpacker has taken it ...
Free shots and beer buckets in party town at centre of suspected methanol deaths
And off they went.” They ended up on 12 November in the riverside town of Vang Vieng in central Laos. The two checked into the popular Nana Backpacker Hostel - where guests often receive a free shot ...
Sixth foreign tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos
A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who ...
Deadly alcohol poisoning casts shadow over the Laotian backpacker town
A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has ...
6 tourists who died are believed to have drunk tainted alcohol in Laos
The victims were an American, two Danes, two Australians, and a Brit. Australia's prime minister called the ordeal "every ...