British woman, 24, dies after falling ill in Sri Lankan hostel

A British pistillate has reportedly died aft falling sick astatine a hostel successful Sri Lanka.

The 24-year-old was taken to infirmary aft collapsing portion staying astatine a hostel successful the centre of Colombo.

The unnamed pistillate was 1 of 3 tourists who fell sick astatine the hostel, with the others being a German mates sharing the room, according to section media reports.

Sri Lankan Police person launched an probe into the death.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said: “We are supporting the household of a British pistillate who has died successful Sri Lanka and are successful interaction with the section authorities.”

It came weeks aft different British pistillate and her fiance were recovered dormant successful a Vietnamese edifice conscionable aft announcing their engagement.

Greta Marie Otteson, 33, and Arno Quinton Els, 36, were recovered successful abstracted edifice rooms successful Hoi An aft drinking wine, according to police.

Cleaners recovered the bodies of Ms Otteson, a societal media manager and question influencer, successful her furniture successful country 101 of the Hoi An Silverbell villa and her South African spouse Mr Els successful country 201 connected Boxing Day.

That fatal incidental came conscionable weeks aft six tourists died from methanol poisoning successful Laos aft drinking contaminated escaped shots astatine a backpackers’ hostel.

On Sunday, British subsister Bethany Clarke spoke for the archetypal clip astir the incidental successful Laos which claimed the beingness of her childhood person Simone White.

“If it looked dodgy, I wouldn’t person drunk it,” Ms Clarke told Australia’s 60 Minutes programme. “We went up to the barroom and I watched him determination them retired from a solid vessel with a vodka statement connected it. I knew it would person been a section spirit, I wouldn’t expect it to beryllium an planetary spirit.”

While she did not consciousness “that bad” astatine first, Ms Clarke added: “You physically can’t move. It’s similar you’re much oregon little paralysed. You tin inactive locomotion but everything is much, much, overmuch much hard than it would beryllium ordinarily. Mainly fatigue, nausea, I fainted.”

Despite drinking the aforesaid fig of mixed drinks arsenic her person and besides being admitted to hospital, Ms Clarke went connected to marque a afloat recovery.

“It could person easy been me,” she said. “We’ve conscionable had to effort and get done the ceremonial and evidently we privation to effort and dispersed consciousness and marque definite different radical don’t person to spell done this. And past I tin benignant of commencement connected my ain travel of trying to travel to presumption with it all.”

Alongside White, the different victims were Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, some aged 19 and from Australia, Sofie Orklid Coyman, 20, and Freya Vennervald Sorensen, 21, who were some from Denmark, and James Louis Hutson, a 57-year-old from the US.