A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to 6 the variety of international vacationers who’ve died after apparently consuming tainted alcohol in Laos.
The household of Holly Bowles, 19, stated they had been “heartbroken” to verify her dying, greater than every week after she fell ailing within the vacationer city of Vang Vieng.
Her pal Bianca Jones, additionally 19, and British lawyer Simone White, 28, from south-east London, had been confirmed to have died on Thursday.
Lots of the victims had been staying on the Nana Backpacker Hostel with employees being informed that company had fallen ailing after they failed to take a look at on 13 November.
The supervisor of the hostel has since been detained for questioning by police.
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This was happened in LAOS, not in Thailand. Just to be cleared.
Stop drink, safe your healty/money future
In Laos Milions of Vietnamese and Chinese they love to live in Laos because they are the same communist country Retaurant, bars , hotels all own by them, drink and food not really safe
Laos is its own city with its own rules
Nothing will happen, just a slap on the wrist. Att: Travellers. Don't drink dodgy drinks in dodgy places
Teach your teenagers to be streetwise
It's "Lao." Just one country, singular. Lao PDR.
Welcome to Laos rouge 🌚
The victims drank counterfeit alcohol in Vang Vieng in Laos and some were sent for treatment in a Thai hospital.
Very sad news,lam from PNG
Laos is not safe. Hospitals in Laos do not have enough equipment, so they have to rely on Thai hospitals for treatment instead.
I went cycling through Laos years ago….got invited to a local wedding, and just about everything they were drinking was moonshine…. people drink thousands of litres of it every year. .seems odd that foreign tourists are the only ones affected?
My condolences to the families involved. Something like this happening in Laos does not surprise me though with the lack of any rules on illegally made local moonshine. I hope they find the people responsible for this and they are prosecuted.
I'm very saddened by this!! I believe my son Alex knew Bianca Jones??,? Both the same age!!!
Laos is the biggest drinking culture in Asia. People don't realize it. Yes there is natural beauty there but relatively little to do. There is so much pressure to drink.
I noticed the patients had to be flown to Thailand for care. If you travel to poor countries like Laos or Dominican Republic with sketchy healthcare systems, act accordingly. Tainted alcohol, motorcycle accidents and food poisoning can kill.
Lots of travel warnings out there about methanol poisoning.
"Laos officials aimed to re-centre the town as a spot for eco-tourism rather than just a hub for the young and drunk.
“And it worked,” they say. “It’s actually changed a quite a lot in the past decade, they’ve cleaned it up, it’s way more modern than it used to be."
But because of that: “I think it can be very easy for young travellers to miss that this is still a very poor country with lax regulations and safety standards.”
The diplomat said methanol poisoning – where alcoholic drinks are contaminated with the toxic compound – is well-known among consulates and tourism operators.
Consulates are fairly regularly having to deal with cases of tourists who have fallen ill from dodgy drinks, the diplomat noted.
South East Asia is documented as the worst region for methanol poisoning. Local producers making cheap alcohol often will not correctly reduce the toxic level of methanol produced in the process.
Thousands of incidents are recorded every year in the region, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF)."
Now day you must take an extrem precaution to travel in Laos, Burma and Cambodia. These countries operated by an illegal cartel governments, all shady n illegal crabs are going down every day…
Thialand always help. I'm grad we can help. But for Real, Lao doesn't even have hospital for Lao citizen. Lao is a burden for Thailand
Sad. I challenged myself to go alcohol free for a year. It’s been so easy. My year ended this month and after hearing things like this my desire to start drinking again is lower than zero.
This has been happening for years in n China and now those who thought they were consuming the genuine article are suffering from extreme health problems.
No arrests. Shows the true level of concern
The amount of victim blaming is infuriating. There needs to be a whole top bottom
Approach of Laos and it’d government leaving no stone unturned. It’s been a pattern
if you were the owner of the hostel you would not poison your customers .you will go bankrupt no one will stay there . if its free its cheep Alcohol and its moonshine or homemade
locals can drink it and not get sick they are use to moonshine sadly we are not our bodies can not cope
It happened in Laos but the news statement blankets it as southeast asia. I don't think that is fair for Thailand and other countries in souteast asia.
Just so people in another country know, laos is not a good place to visit. Laos is a communist country. They will try every possible ways to get your money. In this case, i strongly believed that the people at this bar tainted the tourist's drink in an attempt to make them fainted in tbier hotel so that the bar owner could ramsack all of their belongings, but for some reasons they died of overdosed.
Laos is a landlocked country and hasn’t changed for so many years including government/political. The appeal is the undiscovered territory and has been pretty much untouched for centuries. Lao people are beautiful respectable people the country has been affected so much because of the Vietnam war yet was left to tend to their own as other countries that were affected do to the Vietnam war were helped by the USA after bombing the crap out of the country for months, yet if you ask an American where Laos is at? They will not know ? But when you have poverty in any country around the world this what tends to happen, Any tourist should be very concerned about any alcohol in countries that are economically worlds behind. Read about how China has pretty much invaded and took control over Laos, as it’s doing in Africa. A lot of counterfeit coming in from China as well alcohol,gold, food etc.. also what maybe the norm for poverty stricken people can hurt others, I am truly sad my heart goes out to the families..
Alcohol kills weeds don’t
Keep in mind that the famous hostel is running by a foreign business !
Laos finally get caught. Our people visiting Laos since the year 2000, each year, many people died from food and drink poisoning but no one knew it. Do not travel to Laos
So who's the other 3 that died? These 3 girls are getting alot of coverage over it and we know why… but what about the other 3? Are they not important to mention their story too?
Ludicrous all that fuss about a few .. how about the many millions dying from alcohol disease . Alcohol is a poison anyhow. It's allowed because it's a capitalist business . Ban alcohol opiates stupéfiants weapons of mass destruction. Drinking alcohol in many of these places do not take into account the feelings of impoverished locals and alcohol drinking
Don’t wish to visit laos anymore, dangerous
Anyone else think they are targeting white people? It just seems like a lot of country's are killing whites these days