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.
Southeast Asia has the "highest rates of methanol poisoning globally", said Al Jazeera, and this is often blamed on "economic ...
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Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff members of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of ...
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Doctors have revealed a common treatment to slow the effects of methanol poisoning. It comes after six people died following ...
Tributes have poured in from friends and family of Simone, who have described feeling “devastated” by her death, Chronicle ...
A New Zealander who had fallen ill from suspected methanol poisoning in Laos has now returned home, authorities have ...
Two Danish backpackers who died in a mass poisoning in Laos messaged a friend to say they had been vomiting blood for hours before they went eerily silent, and were later found deceased.
Last week, six tourists died in Laos from a suspected outbreak of methanol poisoning, the Associated Press reported. Among those who died, there were two people from Australia, two from Denmark ...
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