A BRITISH woman has died after suddenly falling ill at a hostel in Sri Lanka.
The 24-year-old reportedly started “vomiting violently” before she was rushed to hospital in capital Colombo.
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She had been sharing a room with a German couple at the Miracle Colombo City Hostel when the three of them became unwell.
The Brit was admitted to Colombo General reportedly due to severe vomiting before she was tragically pronounced dead.
The German couple reportedly remain hospitalised and responding to treatment.
The couple reportedly suffered similar symptoms to the Brit.
The Colombo Fort Magistrate Court has since ordered the hostel to shut down pending a full investigation.
The closure will remain in place until the Government Analyst’s Department determines whether the premises are safe to operate, police said.
Local authorities have since launched a probe into the incident.
Officials from the Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka and a judicial medical officer are also actively involved in the investigation.
A post-mortem examination will be conducted once the victim’s relatives arrive to formally identify her remains.
It comes after another British woman and her fiance were allegedly fatally poisoned by methanol-laced limoncello mysteriously delivered to their Vietnam hotel.
Newly engaged couple Greta Marie Otteson, 33, and Arno Els Quinton, 36, are believed to have received two bottles of the “homemade” liqueur from a local restaurant on Christmas Eve.
But the couple’s bodies were tragically found in separate rooms inside the Hoi An Silverbell Villa two days later on Boxing Day – three weeks after their engagement.
Cops launched an urgent probe into their deaths with officers saying they found empty bottles inside the rooms of the villa they were managing for 10 months.
Now cops say the couple’s deaths were caused by methanol poisoning from contaminated alcohol, believed to be “homemade” limoncello purchased from a local restaurant on Christmas Eve.
The tragedy echoes a similar incident in Laos just five weeks earlier, when six people, including British lawyer Simone White, 28, died after drinking contaminated vodka shots at a hostel.