Lucy Davidson stayed on the Nana Backpacker hostel in Laos final week, the place six folks died from methanol poisoning.
Numerous folks had been taken to hospital after the incident within the common backpacking city of Vang Vieng final week.
Police in Laos have detained the supervisor and proprietor of a hostel in reference to the demise of six folks from suspected methanol poisoning, together with a British lawyer.
Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was amongst various folks taken to hospital following the incident within the common backpacking city of Vang Vieng final week.
The International Commonwealth and Improvement Workplace (FCDO) confirmed her demise on Thursday.
5 others are presently recognized to have died, together with two Australian youngsters, an American and two Danish vacationers.
The FCDO stated it was in touch with the native authorities relating to the British nationals affected.
These poisoned within the incident are believed to have been served drinks tainted with methanol, which is typically utilized by disreputable bars as a less expensive various to ethanol, however could cause extreme poisoning or demise.
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I live in Malaysia, only drink cocktails from top hotel bars. At a regular bar only beer from a bottle! Golden rule in SEA! The only place you dont need to give a damn is beautiful Singapore
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Stop drinking alcohol no matter where u are!!!! Asia, europe, usa,…just don't drink alcohol.
They wanted you dead so they could rob you and forget you ever existed…
Revenge any means
Tyvm
They can drug you, then under the guise they are your friend taking u back to hotel, rob you
All these clueless, nice kids learning about life in some far flung sha7 ole. Their parents must be worried sick.
Why would you even travel a 3rd world country?
😮 That is extremely scary
Lots of dumb comments in here.
this is why I only go for beer… no alcohol or cocktails, I don't trust in a foreign countries.
Simple fix, don't drink!
It is hilarious to see these rich, pompous, pretentious people get taken advantage of when they are out exploiting other countries for their own entertainment and social medias.
This has happened to me before, in Thailand too, but I think it was actually food poison 😅 and I was nursed back to health by some lovely Thai lady.
Don't do it…or you'll end up brain damaged like this lady.
You are so lucky to be alive.. Stay out of those countries.. What people don't talk about either is some of the oils that people use in food that they sell on the street is "gutter oil" they get that was thrown out because its cheap or free, but its very contaminated..
Simple don’t drink don’t expect any sympathy for actions you made.
It is so easy to distill alcohol from sugarcane, and sugarcane grows there. I would not be surprised if there are bad intentions way beyond making cheap booze.
Westerners Stomach are so weak cux of process Food that's why they can't handle
Poor regulation is handled I'm glad she made it through it i hope offical will investigate this
I would only drink this type of alcohol at Luckin Coffee China 🙂 you need to no drink sketchy alcohol Myanmar where people hate Westerners and there’s a literal travel advisory those people have betrayed their own country’s Christian believers in a fit of popular opinion (where Democracy goes insane), rage, paranoia . I have no idea but I think there is a lot of like foreign careful delicate type of diplomacy for the sake of those citizens of theirs affected by that before we have more groups of Christian drunks going out there to drink old types of alcohol while eating the cute little tea salads look so cheeky I’d be. Listen, I’m not trying to make fun of you, but I think I am trying to make fun of anybody that doesn’t follow our warnings from now on.
It happened to me in 2019 at a bar in Southern Vietnam. Four day's recovering from that incident, I knew I was poisoned but did not know by what.
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Safer to smoke weed. Or drink beer.