Alcohol poisoning deaths strikes Laotian backpacker town

VANG VIENG, Laos: Six tourists were killed, and scores were injured from mass alcohol poisoning in a little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos.

Two Australian teens became critically ill after a night out drinking in the town of Vang Vieng. They died in Thai hospitals, with one confirmed case of methanol poisoning. A British woman was also confirmed dead. An American and two Danes also died, t