By AP – published by Yahoo!News and Naewna Vang Vieng, Laos – A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said today (Nov. 22), bringing the death toll in the mass poisoning of foreign tourists to six. Holly Bowles,
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Mystery solved: Snake medicine ordered by suicide-murder Vietnamese woman is a supplement
THE puzzling “snake medicine No. 7” which one of the six Vietnamese visitors, with two being American citizens, who died in a murder-suicide at a luxury hotel on Tuesday (July 16) had asked her guide to buy for her turned out to be a Thai supplement and not a poison as earlier suspected, Matichon
Read moreFatal cyanide dose found in bodies of two victims
THE POLICE TEAM investigating the likely cyanide killing of 13 victims confirmed that a fatal amount of the lethal poison had been found in the bodies of two of them, MNG Online said late afternoon today (Apr. 28). Pol. Maj. Gen. Namkiat Theerarojanaphong and Pol. Col. Anek Taosupap said after a five-hour video conference
Read morePolice know where cyanide killing suspect got poison from
POLICE have found out where the suspect in the cyanide killing of a young woman who is also believed linked to 12 other mysterious deaths got the lethal poison from, Naewna newspaper said today (Apr. 27). Pol. Col. Anek Taosupap, deputy commander of the Crime Suppression Division, said police had a strong case against
Read moreCyanide poisoning case suspect rushed to hospital as mysterious deaths climb to 10
THE SUSPECT in a cyanide poisoning case was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night after her blood pressure rose high while Deputy National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakparn said the total number of mysterious deaths had risen to 10 but the 11th victim survived and is an important witness,
Read morePoliceman’s wife held over cyanide killing, link to 6 more deaths probed
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak Kittipraphat said the wife of a deputy superintendent at a Ratchaburi police station has been arrested in the cyanide poisoning death of a young woman during Songkran festival, Matichon newspaper said today (Apr. 25). Deputy National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, nicknamed Big Joke, who is leading
Read more30 children rushed to hospital after eating free noodles
AROUND 30 kindergarten and primary school children were rushed to nearby hospitals after all started suffering from food poisoning shortly after eating free noodles distributed on the occasion of Children’s Day, Amarin TV said this afternoon (Jan. 13). Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Erawan Unit sent over ten ambulances to Wat Naknimit School in Soi Suksawat
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