{"id":67931,"date":"2024-11-26T19:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T10:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/26\/laos-hostel-staff-detained-after-backpackers-deaths-from-suspected-methanol-poisoning"},"modified":"2024-11-27T03:50:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:50:43","slug":"laos-hostel-staff-detained-after-backpackers-deaths-from-suspected-methanol-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67931","title":{"rendered":"Eight Laos hostel staff held over suspected methanol poisoning deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manager and seven staff at Nana backpackers hostel detained after death of six tourists<\/p>\n<p>Police in Laos have detained the manager of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng as well as seven of its staff after the <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\">deaths of six tourists in a suspected mass methanol poisoning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two Danish citizens, an American, a Briton and two Australians died after becoming ill after a night out in the small riverside town. A third Australian, a dual national, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/nov\/26\/laos-methanol-poisoning-third-australia-illness-condition-ntwnfb\">also fell ill<\/a>, and is understood to be in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/26\/laos-hostel-staff-detained-after-backpackers-deaths-from-suspected-methanol-poisoning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manager and seven staff at Nana backpackers hostel detained after death of six touristsPolice in Laos have detained the manager of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng as well as seven of its staff after the deaths of six tourists in a suspected mass meth&#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":[41,727,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-laos","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67931","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=67931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67947,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67931\/revisions\/67947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}