Four people have died and a number of others are in hospital after allegedly being served drinks laced with methanol.
According to inestablishs, six British travellers are among those being treated in Laos, after droping ill last week.
Two Danish women in their 20s and a 56-year-elderly US citizen are inestablished to have died in what authorities worry was a mass poisoning.
On Thursday, it was verifyed an Australian woman – named as Bianca Jones, 19, from Melbourne – had become the fourth person to die.
Her friend Holly Bowles is being treated in hospital after calling for medical help at their accommodation, Nana’s Backpackers Hostel.
In a statement given to the Herald Sun, Ms Jones’s family shelp: “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we scatter the news that our becherishd daughter and sister, Bianca Jones, has passed away.
“She was surrounded by cherish, and we are consoleed by the understandledge that her incredible spirit touched so many dwells during her time with us.
“We want to convey our meaningfulest gratitude for the overwhelming help, cherish, and prayers we’ve getd from apass Australia.”
One of the British travellers being treated in hospital has been named as Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent.
According to The Times newspaper, she became ill last week in Vang Vieng – a resort well-understandn with backpackers.
Ms White’s friend, Bethany Clarke, a healthattfinish toiler also from Orpington, posted on a Laos Backpacking Facebook group to caution other travellers.
“Urgent – plmitigate elude all local spirits. Our group stayed in Vang Vieng and we drank free sboilings proposeed by one of the bars,” she wrote.
“Just elude them as so not worth it. Six of us who drank from the same place are in hospital currently with methanol poisoning.”
