Grim Laos backpacker survey shows scale of tourist horrors after methanol poisonings

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A backpacker says he has stepped in to try to uncover the true extent of trouble fellow travellers are getting in during their time in the Laos fun-trap of Vang Vieng. Six tourists - including Brit Simone White - have died of suspected methanol poisoning after having tainted drinks in the spot popular with young people. All six victims, Simone, 28, Danish women Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, American man James Louis Hutson, 57, and Australians Bianca Jones and

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