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.. The two ...

Reports about the mass poisoning in Vang Vieng began to emerge last week after Jones and Bowles fell ill on Nov. 13 after a night out drinking with a group in the remote town.

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 ...

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 ...

HONG KONG — Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning by local authorities investigating the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol ...

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 ...

Laos is a one-party communist state with no organized opposition and the government keeps a tight lid on information. The view of Vang Vieng, Laos, in December 2018.

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

Mom of UK lawyer opens up about daughter’s nightmarish final moments after mass poisoning in Laos By . Chantelle Francis, News.com.au. Published Dec. 1, 2024, 8:40 a.m. ET.

A young Australian woman has died and another is fighting for her life in hospital in Bangkok on November 21, 2024 after a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, Australia’s prime minister said.