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Major development after six foreign tourists died of methanol poisoning at a backpacker hostel in La...

Multiple staff from a backpacker hostel at the centre of a suspected mass poisoning in Laos, which claimed the lives of six foreign tourists, have been arrested by police. Eight employees, aged 23 to 47, from the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vieng are in custody following arrests by police on Monday, a local news site reported. All of those detained are believed to be Vietnamese nationals. Melbourne teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, both aged 19, were among six foreign tourists who d ...Read More >