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 ...
Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to ...
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A DOCTOR who tried to save a teenager before she died from suspected methanol poisoning said she went from confused to comatose in just half an hour. Holly Bowles, 19, and five other tourists were ...
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