It come as Vang Vieng’s tourism police says manager and owner of Nana backpacker hostel taken in for questioning

A second Australian teenager, Holly Bowles, has died after suspected methanol poisoning in Laos, it has been confirmed.

The 19-year-old’s death comes just one day after her friend, Bianca Jones, also died in a Thai hospital. The pair had been travelling through Laos together and fell ill a week ago.