Laos methanol: Foreign hostel staff detained after poisonings as
1 day ago · The employees of the Nana Backpacker Hostel in the northern town of Vang Vieng, all Vietnamese nationals aged between 23 and 44, were arrested Monday by local police, state-affiliated newspaper ...
Laos' deadly alcohol poisoning casts shadow over backpacker town | AP News
4 days ago · VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured scores of others.. News broke earlier this week that two Australian teens became critically ill after a night out drinking in the town of Vang Vieng. They died in Thai hospitals, with one ...
Vang Vieng: What to know about the Laos city swept up in …
5 days ago · But now, Vang Vieng’s drinking culture is back in the news. As reports of tourists’ deaths emerged in recent days, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Canada and the US all issued statements ...
Deaths rise to 6 in mass alcohol poisoning of ... - Associated Press News
5 days ago · VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — 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 in the mass poisoning of foreign tourists to six.. Holly Bowles, 19, had been in critical condition on life support following the poisoning in Laos more than a week ago.
Laos hostel staff detained after suspected methanol deaths - BBC
2 days ago · Some travellers in Vang Vieng are steering clear of the once-popular free shots and alcohol buckets offered to tourists, telling the BBC that they felt concerned about their safety.
Laos methanol poisonings: Australian teens among six tourists …
6 days ago · On Friday, the official Lao News Agency (KPL) confirmed two Danish nationals, both female, and one American national, died in Vang Vieng on November 13. “The suspected cause of the death is...
'Don't drink the spirits': Laos backpackers avoid shots after ... - BBC
3 days ago · As the sun slowly dips behind the jagged peaks of Mount Nam Xay, a group of brightly coloured hot air balloons drift across the Vang Vieng valley. In the river below, young tourists laugh and ...
Mass poisoning blamed on tainted alcohol in Laos, with ... - NBC News
6 days ago · The State Department said the U.S. citizen died in Vang Vieng, a town popular with backpackers to the north of the Southeast Asian country’s capital, Vientiane. “We offer our sincerest...
Deadly alcohol poisoning casts shadow over the Laotian
4 days ago · Vang Vieng received more than 600,000 tourists in 2023, and expected to see even more this year, the state-owned Laos News Agency quoted the district governor as saying earlier this year.
American and Australian tourists die, raising toll to 4 in Laos …
Nov 21, 2024 · VIENTIANE: An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in the Laos town of Vang Vieng, Australia’s prime minister said Thursday (Nov 21), bringing the death toll to four in ...
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