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

The U.S., Australia and U.K. have issued warnings for travelers in Vang Vieng after several tourists died in a suspected methanol poisoning outbreak.

Simone White was enjoying a holiday with friends in Laos last week when she accepted a free shot from a bar. The 28-year-old British lawyer is one of six people to have died in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in the backpacking town of Vang Vieng.

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng last week

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, pledging it would bring perpetrators to justice

An American man was among at least six tourists who were killed in a mass alcohol poisoning case in a popular tourist town in Laos.

This is every parent’s very worst fear and a nightmare that no one should have to endure,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after the death of 19-year-old Bianca Jones.

A methanol poisoning incident in Vang Vieng, Laos, has tragically claimed the lives of four tourists, including an Australian teenager, Bianca Jones, and an American. The event has prompted authorities,

At least four tourists, including a U.S. citizen, have died after consuming alcohol tainted with methanol while traveling in Laos, officials said.

Two Australian teenagers and a British woman have died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos

Australian teenager Holly Bowles has become the sixth foreign tourist to die from suspected methanol poisoning in Laos. The 19-year-old died more than a week after falling ill in the tourist town of Vang Vieng,