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Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from ...

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Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven workers of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of six ...

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

Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of six tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, state media reported.