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Police successful Laos person arrested 8 radical implicit the suspected wide methanol poisoning which killed six overseas tourists successful backpacking hotspot Vang Vieng.
The Laos authorities promised justness aft 2 Danish, 2 Australians, a Briton and an American national died aft becoming sick pursuing a nighttime retired astatine Nana Backpackers Hostel successful the tiny riverside municipality connected 12 November.
Police said those detained were each employees of Nana Backpacker Hostel, of Vietnamese nationality and aged betwixt 23 and 44 years old.
Authorities accidental they fishy that the deaths were caused by poisoning, perchance owed to tainted drinks laced with methanol.
The authorities said it had been conducting “investigations to find causes of the incidental and to bring the perpetrators to justness successful accordance with the law”.
However, small further accusation has been made disposable astir the circumstances surrounding the deaths successful the one-party communist state, wherever the media is tightly controlled.
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