The venue’s manager is assisting police in the capital Vientiane. Foreigners Vang Vieng are being told not to drink free alcohol.
Police have ordered the closure of the Laos hostel where two 19-year-old Australians and other travellers were staying when they were rushed to hospital.Bowles’ father, Shaun Bowles, confirmed his daughter had passed away in a Bangkok hospital on Friday evening.
Nana was a common denominator in the unfolding tragedy that killed Bianca Jones along with at least four other travellers, they said before Bowles death was confirmed. The death toll now includes Bowles, Jones, two young Danish women, an American man and 28-year-old British woman Simone White.Shaun Bowles told Nine journalist Gillian Lantouris: “It is with broken hearts and we are so sad to say that our beautiful girl Holly is now at peace.
A Nana worker, one of few remaining there to help the last guests check out, said the Australian 19-year-olds had got back in the early hours of the morning. They seemed happy, he said, though they were not walking straight. Vang Vieng is a party town for backpackers, so this was not unusual.
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