{"id":70161,"date":"2025-03-14T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/14\/australian-denmark-uk-backpacker-deaths-laos-holly-bowles-bianca-jones-freja-sorensen-anne-sofie-coyman-simone-white-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-03-14T23:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:00:25","slug":"four-months-after-daughters-deaths-parents-of-laos-backpackers-face-horror-scenarios-amid-fight-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70161","title":{"rendered":"Four months after daughters\u2019 deaths, parents of Laos backpackers face \u2018horror scenarios\u2019 amid fight for answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the UK, Australia and Denmark mount joint diplomatic push, grieving families fear Laos\u2019 investigation into the suspected methanol poisonings won\u2019t deliver justice<\/p>\n<p>The poolside bar at the Nana backpackers hostel in central Laos should have been an idyllic spot for a free happy hour on a mid-November evening.<\/p>\n<p>Among those staying at Nana were two pairs of best friends \u2013 19-year-old Australians Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, and Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, and Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, from Denmark. All four were drawn to south-east Asia\u2019s famed backpacking route that has for decades enticed young travellers seeking carefree, sun-drenched moments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/14\/australian-denmark-uk-backpacker-deaths-laos-holly-bowles-bianca-jones-freja-sorensen-anne-sofie-coyman-simone-white-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the UK, Australia and Denmark mount joint diplomatic push, grieving families fear Laos\u2019 investigation into the suspected methanol poisonings won\u2019t deliver justiceThe poolside bar at the Nana backpackers hostel in central Laos should have been an idy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4647,"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":[41,43,635,727,527,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-denmark","category-laos","category-travel","category-uk-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\/70161","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\/4647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70162,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70161\/revisions\/70162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}