Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to reports from the Australian Broadcasting Corp.  Tourists reported illnesses

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a growing list of countries warned of the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in the Southeast Asian country.

Six tourists including British lawyer Simon White, from Kent, tragically died following a mass poisoning at a hostel in Thailand - new details have sparked further questions about the parties at fault

A third Australian has fallen ill after consuming methanol-laced alcohol in Laos. So far, six people have died and eight arrests have been made in what is suspected to be a mass methanol poisoning.

The father of Bianca Jones, a 19-year-old Australian who was one of six tourists killed in a methanol poisoning incident in Laos, has urged authorities to conduct a full investigation into the tragedy,

Laos police have detained eight men over a suspected methanol poisoning that killed six backpackers, including two Australians. Laos police told the ABC the detained men were staff and management of the Nana Backpackers hostel, where Australian teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles were staying when they fell ill.

Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning.

Multiple staff from a hostel at the centre of a suspected mass poisoning in Laos, which claimed the lives of six foreign tourists, have been arrested by police. Eight men aged 23-47, from the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vieng are in custody following arrests by police on Monday,

Eight arrested over Laos methanol poisonings which killed six tourists - All arrested individuals are employees of Nana Backpackers Hostel