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 ...
At least six tourists who traveled to Laos have died in recent days, prompting international alarm about the dangers of ...
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The US State Department issued a warning to travelers to be “alert to the potential risk of methanol poisoning.” But what is ...
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As some of their number succumbed to methanol poisoning, other guests at the Laotian hostel at the centre of the probe tried ...
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Terrified travellers attempted to warn others about suspected methanol being served in drinks at a hostel now being ...
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