A young Australian man has been found dead in a hotel room in Laos, the third to die in the country in the past month.
The Foreign Affairs Department says the 22-year-old's body was found in a hotel in north-west Laos.
Local authorities want to speak to his Dutch girlfriend who has disappeared.
Consular staff are now providing assistance to the man's family in Victoria.
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