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.

The Laotian government officially acknowledged the mass poisoning on Saturday and offered its condolences to the families of the victims. | ITV National News

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