Six travelers have died from suspected methanol poisoning after visiting the tourist town of Vang Vieng, Laos, this month. The travelers — two from Australia, two from Denmark, one from United ...

Tourists talk to a bar owner in Vang Vieng, Laos, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. Laotian authorities have detained the manager and the owner of a hostel where the two dead Australian teenagers stayed.

Laos’ methanol poisoning deaths send chill through backpacker paradise. ... Embassies of Denmark, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States have declined to comment.

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a growing list of countries warned of the potentially fatal consequences of ...

Six travelers have died from suspected methanol poisoning after visiting the tourist town of Vang Vieng, Laos, this month. The travelers — two from Australia, two from Denmark, one from United ...