Six backpackers have died after allegedly being served drinks laced with methanol while travelling in Laos, south-east Asia ...

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, is one of six people who died in the tragedy in the popular backpacking town of Vang ...

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has ...

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok ...

The Laos government said Saturday it was "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll ...

A second Australian woman who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, ...

The victims were an American, two Danes, two Australians, and a Brit. Australia's prime minister called the ordeal "every ...

Holly Bowles, 19, had been in critical condition on life support following the poisoning in Laos more than a week ago.

The deaths of five tourists after apparently drinking tainted drinks highlight the wider issue of bootleg alcohol.

Laotian police have detained the manager and owner of a hostel where two teenage Australian tourists stayed who were poisoned by tainted alcohol, one fatally, in a case that appears to have claimed ...

A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who ...