Sixth person dies after suspected
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. The owner and manager of the hostel, where they were both staying, have been detained by Laotian police after an investigation was launched. British lawyer Simone White, 28, died on Thursday after she was believed to have drunk the same shots laced with methanol on the night of Nov 12.