MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two Australian vacationers are being handled in Thailand for suspected extreme alcohol poisoning after consuming contaminated drinks in neighboring Laos, Australian media reported Tuesday.
The two nineteen-year-old girls had been on a backpacking vacation Laos after they fell sick within the vacationer city of Vang Vieng, The Age newspaper within the girls’s hometown Melbourne reported.
The Australian embassy in Laos referred questions in regards to the case to the nation’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Vang Vieng, about two hours north of the Lao capital of Vientiane, is well-liked with backpackers and identified for its social gathering environment.
The Nana Backpacker Hostel the place the 2 had stayed was not answering the telephone.
But a employee confirmed to The Age that the couple checked in on November 9 and went out on the night of November 11 with a gaggle of younger folks. The employee, who was not recognized, mentioned the ladies returned within the early hours of the morning.
The alarm was raised when the ladies failed to take a look at as scheduled on November 13. When they had been discovered by workers, the 2 mentioned they had been sick and the hostel sought medical consideration for them.
They had been then flown to Thailand and are being handled in hospitals in Bangkok and Udon Thani, the newspaper reported. Their dad and mom flew in to be with them.
It was unclear what the 2 had been consuming, however methanol is typically used as an inexpensive different to ethanol as a result of the alcohol in combined drinks in bars is dodgy and may trigger severe poisoning or demise.
It was not instantly potential to confirm reviews that different vacationers had been additionally poisoned in the identical accident.
