The Lao government is "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists from drinking alcohol contaminated with ...

Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, according to ...

The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in Southeast Asia that has worked hard in recent years to shed its reputation ...

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under the spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured scores of others.

Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to reports from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Tourists reported illnesses ...

Six people reportedly died after consuming methanol-laced alcohol while vacationing in Laos Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. Her work includes writing about crime ...

Two Australian teenagers and a British woman have died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos BANGKOK -- Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from ...

Vang Vieng, Laos — A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll ...

Workers at a backpackers hostel in Laos have been arrested after six tourists, including a British woman, died from suspected methanol poisoning. Eight staff of the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang ...

The Canadian government has issued a travel advisory for Laos after six tourists died due to tainted alcohol. In the travel advisory, the government recommends to Canadians that they “exercise a ...

The Laos government said on Saturday (Nov 23) that it was "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll from a suspected methanol poisoning incident now at six.