Four people have died and a number of others are in hospital after allegedly being served drinks laced with methanol.
According to increates, six British travellers are among those being treated in Laos, after descending ill last week.
Two Danish women in their 20s and a 56-year-ageder US citizen are increateed to have died in what authorities stress was a mass poisoning.
On Thursday, it was verifyed an Australian woman – named as Bianca Jones, 19, from Melbourne – had become the fourth person to die.
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Her friend Holly Bowles is being treated in hospital after calling for medical help at their accommodation, Nana’s Backpackers Hostel.
In a statement given to the Herald Sun, Ms Jones’s family shelp: “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we separate the news that our beadored daughter and sister, Bianca Jones, has passed away.
“She was surrounded by adore, and we are sootheed by the understandledge that her incredible spirit touched so many inhabits during her time with us.
“We want to transmit our proset upest gratitude for the overwhelming help, adore, and prayers we’ve getd from apass Australia.”
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One of the British travellers being treated in hospital has been named as Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent.
According to The Times newspaper, she became ill last week in Vang Vieng – a resort famous with backpackers.
Ms White’s friend, Bethany Clarke, a healthnurture toiler also from Orpington, posted on a Laos Backpacking Facebook group to caution other travellers.
“Urgent – satisfy dodge all local spirits. Our group stayed in Vang Vieng and we drank free sboilings presented by one of the bars,” she wrote.
“Just dodge them as so not worth it. Six of us who drank from the same place are in hospital currently with methanol poisoning.”
New Zealand’s Foreign Ministry also verifyed one of its citizens was also unwell in Laos and could be a victim of methanol poisoning.
