Four other tourists - an Australian, two Danes and an American - have died in the incident in Vang Vieng, a town in Laos popular with backpackers.
A notice is displayed at the bar of Nana Backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos , Nov 19, 2024. LONDON: A British woman who fell ill after drinking contaminated alcohol in Laos has died, the fifth foreign national now suspected to have died in the incident.
Four other tourists - an Australian, two Danes and an American - have died in the incident in Vang Vieng, a town in the Southeast Asian nation popular with foreign backpackers. The group of about a dozen tourists became ill after going out on Nov 12, according to British and Australian media. No charges have been made as police are still"investigating", an official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Vang Vieng has been a fixture on the Southeast Asia backpacker trail since Laos' secretive communist rulers opened the country to tourism decades ago. Methanol can be added to liquor to increase its potency, but can cause blindness, liver damage and death.
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