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Eleven backpackers remain in hospital fighting for their lives after drinking lethal shots in a ‘mass methanol poisoning’ in Laos which has killed six others.
British lawyer Simone White, 28, from Orpington in Kent died after drinking free shots allegedly laced with deadly methanol.
Ms White was an associate lawyer specialising in technology and intellectual property at the London office of the American law firm Squire Patton Boggs.
After completing her A-levels at St Olave’s Grammar School, she studied law at Newcastle University before taking the fast-track course at the BPP law school.
She was among six foreign tourists who have died from a suspected mass incident of methanol poisoning in Vang Vieng.
In addition to the six deaths, 14 tourists who had been drinking in the party town developed methanol poisoning within days of each other.
And about 11 other foreign nationals remain in hospital fighting for lives.
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