The Age · World / Asia

Shuttered Laos ‘distillery’ implicated in methanol deaths denies responsibility

· By Zach Hope
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Vientiane: A woman involved with a business implicated in the Laos methanol poisonings that killed two Australian backpackers and four others in 2024 claims the operation is innocent and that it never actually distilled its own spirits.

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