Ivan Milet tour of backpacker murder forest sparks outrage

Australian state steps in to prevent 'horrendous' ghost tours of serial killer's murder spot

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A travel company in Australia has been ordered to stop its "extreme terror tour" of a forest where seven backpackers were brutally murdered by the notorious serial killer Ivan Milat.

The bodies of two Britons, three Germans and two Australians, all aged between 19 and 22, were discovered in the Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales, in the 1990s.

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