British girl, 24, dies after falling in poor health in Sri Lankan hostel | EUROtoday
A British girl has reportedly died after falling in poor health at a hostel in Sri Lanka.
The 24-year-old was taken to hospital after collapsing whereas staying at a hostel within the centre of Colombo.
The unnamed girl was considered one of three vacationers who fell in poor health on the hostel, with the others being a German couple sharing the room, based on native media stories.
Sri Lankan Police have launched an investigation into the loss of life.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office stated: “We are supporting the family of a British woman who has died in Sri Lanka and are in contact with the local authorities.”
It got here weeks after one other British girl and her fiance have been discovered useless in a Vietnamese lodge simply after asserting their engagement.
Greta Marie Otteson, 33, and Arno Quinton Els, 36, have been present in separate lodge rooms in Hoi An after ingesting wine, based on police.
Cleaners discovered the our bodies of Ms Otteson, a social media supervisor and journey influencer, in her mattress in room 101 of the Hoi An Silverbell villa and her South African accomplice Mr Els in room 201 on Boxing Day.
That deadly incident got here simply weeks after six vacationers died from methanol poisoning in Laos after ingesting contaminated free photographs at a backpackers’ hostel.
On Sunday, British survivor Bethany Clarke spoke for the primary time in regards to the incident in Laos which claimed the lifetime of her childhood good friend Simone White.
“If it looked dodgy, I wouldn’t have drunk it,” Ms Clarke advised Australia’s 60 Minutes programme. “We went up to the bar and I watched him pour them out from a glass bottle with a vodka label on it. I knew it would have been a local spirit, I wouldn’t expect it to be an international spirit.”

While she didn’t really feel “that bad” at first, Ms Clarke added: “You physically can’t move. It’s like you’re more or less paralysed. You can still walk but everything is much, much, much more difficult than it would be ordinarily. Mainly fatigue, nausea, I fainted.”
Despite ingesting the identical variety of combined drinks as her good friend and likewise being admitted to hospital, Ms Clarke went on to make a full restoration.
“It could have easily been me,” she stated. “We’ve just had to try and get through the funeral and obviously we want to try and spread awareness and make sure other people don’t have to go through this. And then I can sort of start on my own journey of trying to come to terms with it all.”
Alongside White, the opposite victims have been Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, each aged 19 and from Australia, Sofie Orklid Coyman, 20, and Freya Vennervald Sorensen, 21, who have been each from Denmark, and James Louis Hutson, a 57-year-old from the US.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/british-woman-dies-sri-lanka-hostel-colombo-b2691247.html