Two Danish backpackers who died in a mass poisoning in Laos messaged a friend to say they had been vomiting blood for hours before they went eerily silent, and were later found deceased.

The owner of a backpackers hostel where two young Australians were staying before they fell violently ill from methanol poisoning has been detained by police for questioning in Laos.

A British backpacker who drank at the same Laos hostel as Australian victims Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones has revealed she became severely sick two days before the Australian teenagers were hospitalised.

Details have been murky over the number of tourists affected and the possible source of the methanol-laced drinks.

A BRIT backpacker who drank two shots of alcohol at a hostel in Laos has told how she went blind after consuming the suspected methanol-tainted booze. The unnamed tourist was given “free

A British woman claimed she lost her vision and became violently ill after drinking vodka at the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos where six people have since died

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die of suspected methanol poisoning in a backpacker hotspot in northern Laos.Holly Bowles, 19, died in hospital the day after her best friend Bianca Jones lost her life in a separate Thai hospital.

Australian teenager Holly Bowles has died after suffering alleged methanol poisoning during a holiday to Laos with her best friend.