Six people are so far dead, with the cause suspected as methanol-tainted drinks in the town of Vang Vieng, Laos.

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.

What is methanol poisoning? Australian teenagers fight for lives in Thai hospital - Melbourne’s Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, both 19, were on a ‘dream getaway’ in Asia when the incident occurred