'Don't drink the spirits': Laos backpackers avoid shots after suspected poisonings
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 splash each other from their kayaks. It’s not hard to see what ...
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The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in ...
Methanol is sometimes added to mixed drinks at disreputable bars as a cheaper alternative to ethanol, but can cause severe ...
A New Zealand citizen returns home after being poisoned by methanol in Laos. The incident claimed six lives, including ...
The deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...
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Laos party-goers are on edge and sticking to beer after six tourists were killed by 'methanol poisoning', with backpackers in ...
A methanol poisoning incident in Vang Vieng, Laos, has resulted in six tourist deaths, including citizens from Australia, ...
They have stopped serving shots in the backpacker bars of Vang Vieng. The night spots of this south-east Asian tourist town ...
I still remember the first time I saw Vang Vieng, in Laos. It was many years ago, before the Chinese began pouring money in ...
Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular ...
Two Danes, two Australians, a Briton and an American died from methanol poisoning after visiting Vang Vieng, an idyllic town ...
Death of second Australian teenager comes as the owner of Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng is detained by Laotian police ...
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