{"id":67897,"date":"2024-11-23T19:44:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T10:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/23\/laos-government-profoundly-saddened-deaths-tourists-vang-vieng-suspected-methanol-poisoning"},"modified":"2024-11-24T00:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:59:45","slug":"laos-government-profoundly-saddened-by-deaths-of-tourists-in-vang-vieng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67897","title":{"rendered":"Laos government \u2018profoundly saddened\u2019 by deaths of tourists in Vang Vieng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six foreign visitors died earlier this month after suspected methanol poisoning during night out in backpacker hotspot<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/23\/six-people-are-dead-after-a-suspected-mass-methanol-poisoning-at-a-backpacker-party-town-what-went-wrong-in-laos\">What went wrong in Laos?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Lao government has said it is \u201cprofoundly saddened\u201d by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng and has promised justice, as tributes were paid to victims of a suspected mass methanol poisoning which has claimed six lives.<\/p>\n<p>Two Danish citizens, two Australians, an American, and a Briton died after becoming ill following a night out in the small riverside town, a popular destination for backpackers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/23\/laos-government-profoundly-saddened-deaths-tourists-vang-vieng-suspected-methanol-poisoning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six foreign visitors died earlier this month after suspected methanol poisoning during night out in backpacker hotspotWhat went wrong in Laos?The Lao government has said it is \u201cprofoundly saddened\u201d by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng and ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,635,727,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-denmark","category-laos","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67899,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67897\/revisions\/67899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}