Officials in Australia, Britain and Denmark have also reported deaths in the Southeast Asian country, where alcohol tainted with methanol was blamed for a spate of poisonings.

A British lawyer and Australian teenager have become the fifth and sixth tourists to die following a suspected mass poisoning case in Laos. Simone White, 28, of Orpington, Kent, became ill after ...

Two other backpackers among those dead after the mass poisoning event at a Laos hostel sent chilling text messages to a friend.

An American man was among at least six tourists who were killed in a mass alcohol poisoning case in a popular tourist town in Laos.

Five tourists, including a British woman, have died in a suspected mass poisoning in Laos and here is how methanol affects the body and can kill. The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office ...

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 ...

Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning.

Officials in Laos have released the names of three tourists — including one American — who died of suspected methanol poisoning from drinking tainted alcohol.

VANG VIENG, Laos — A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll ...