Topless Farang Girl Buried In Laos

This is a story i heard second hand, the story was originally told by a local Laotian girl who could speak Thai. The girl who told the story lives in a Mekong river village and was on the river boat traveling study in a nearby town.

I guess a year earlier the local people found a farang girl (western girl) floating in the river, she had on shorts but was topless. After body of the girl was discovered the local villagers reported it to the village head then simply buried the body. No one seems to now how or why she died, what the circumstances of the death were, was it a murder? robbery? rape? or simply some kind of accident? Many back packers in Laos travel for years at a time, many travel alone, it is possible this girls family wherever she was from knows nothing about her fate. There are definite dangers for farang backpackers here, I have heard that many die in boating (Kayaking) accidents or during the rabid drinking parties that go on here, quite often the backpacker will just disappear forever.