Manager and owner of Laos hostel at centre of fatal methanol poisonings detained - Five tourists, including Simone White from Orpington, are thought to have died after ingesting tainted alcohol

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

Employees of a Laotian hostel were detained after an American tourist and five others died from suspected methanol poisoning following a night of drinking tainted booze. The owner and manager of the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vieng were among a “number of people” being questioned by police as a sixth tourist – an Australian teen – perished Friday from consuming the methanol-laced alcohol,