Brit backpacker had ‘lucky escape’ after cancelling stay at poison drink hostel

A British backpacker is ‘lucky to beryllium alive’ aft she booked to enactment astatine the hostel wherever six radical person been killed from ‘alcohol poisoning’ but decided to cancel astatine the past minute.

Tasha Moore, 22, from Manchester was acceptable to enactment astatine the Nana Backpacker Hostel successful the fashionable tourer spot of Vang Vieng successful Laos, earlier cancelling her enactment the time before.

The hostel – which was inactive operating but not accepting caller guests – has contiguous confirmed that the manager and proprietor were among those taken successful for questioning.

Simone White, 28, a lawyer from Orpington successful Kent, besides died astatine the aforesaid hostel, but Tasha said she changed her plans astatine the past infinitesimal successful a determination that she says ‘could person saved my life.’

The contented creator called for much regularisation of hostels successful southeast eastbound Asia dishing retired escaped shots of cheaply made alcohol.

She told Metro from Laos: ‘I was booked successful but changed my plans astatine the past infinitesimal it was a determination that could person saved my life.

‘When I heard what had happened I couldn’t judge it. I could person been determination that nighttime and go 1 of the victims.

‘There needs to beryllium much done to modulate the alcohol. They springiness distant these escaped shots everyplace successful southbound eastbound Asia, it’s not right.

‘My household were evidently disquieted and I cognize I person had a fortunate escape. Those mediocre radical were conscionable having a bully clip it’s heartbreaking.’

Two Australian teenagers, an American, and 2 Danish tourists aged 19 and 20 person besides died aft the incidental the municipality peculiarly fashionable among backpackers successful hunt of partying and escapade sports.

Simone’s family contiguous paid tribute to their ‘brilliant’ daughter and said they had faced a ‘horrific’ fewer days.

The Australian premier minister, Anthony Albanese, told parliament that 19-year-old Bianca Jones, from Melbourne, died aft being evacuated from Vang Vieng for attraction successful a Thai hospital.

Thai authorities said Jones died from ‘brain swelling owed to precocious levels of methanol recovered successful her system’.

The decease of her person Holly Bowles, besides 19, was confirmed by her begetter today, and they excessively had been staying astatine the aforesaid hostel successful Vang Vieng.

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