Details have been murky over the number of tourists affected and the possible source of the methanol-laced drinks.

This week, an American man and two Danish women, aged 19 and 20, died in the same town due to methanol poisoning.

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family statement sent to Australian media.

Laos government ‘saddened’ by suspected poisoning deaths and is investigating - Simone White is one of six people who have died after the incident in Laos last week.

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a growing list of countries warned of the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in the Southeast Asian country.

A British lawyer who died in a suspected mass drink-spiking case in Laos was “one of a kind”, her family have said.

Five foreign tourists have died after a suspected mass methanol poisoning from drinking tainted alcohol at a backpacker hotspot in Laos, Western government officials and media said Thursday.

Simone White and Bethany Clarke have both been named as it emerged that four people have died following an incident in the backpacking hotspot of Vang Vieng in Laos