Another Australian traveller has died in Laos after taking a binge drinking and potentially fatal locally-made ****tails.
Darwin man Kane Scriven, 40, has died after a night of drinking in Laos, according to a friend who asked not to be named.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed the death, although further details are unknown.
Mr Scriven was working for Work Boats Northern Australia before leaving Darwin for the trip.
Just more than a week ago, Denni North, 33, died after being found barely conscious beside a swimming pool in Bali.
Perth man Liam Davies, 19, died last week after methanol poisoning from a drink on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
Melbourne man Sebastian Eric Faulkner, 21, plunged to his death from the ninth floor of a hotel in Phuket on New Year’s Day.
Laos has become a popular destination for mainly young Australian adventure travellers.
Three Australians died in the country within a month last year, two of them from tubing, a sport involving floating down a river.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bob Carr, has appealed for a ban on the selling of adulterated drinks overseas.
