Thai police have confirmed the death of Melbourne teenager Bianca Jones, who became ill after drinking tainted alcohol during a backpacking holiday in Laos.

Five people have now died as a result of suspected methanol poisoning at a local bar in Vang Vieng, Laos, including the 19-year-old Melburnian. The president of the AFL club both poisoned Australian teenagers played for in Melbourne has spoken out in the wake of 19-year-old Bianca Jones' tragic death on Thursday.

Melbourne teenager Bianca Jones has died in hospital after falling victim to a mass methanol poisoning in Laos.

Bianca Jones, a 19-year-old from Melbourne, has passed away at a hospital in Thailand a week after falling critically ill in Laos, where she and her best friend, Holly Bowles, were suspected victims of methanol poisoning.

Melbourne teenager Bianca Jones died in a Thailand hospital, ten days after consuming drinks laced with methanol in Laos. The 19-year-old and her friend Holly Bowles, also 19, were among a dozen other tourists who became ill in a suspected mass methanol poisoning event in the popular town of Vang Vieng 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.

The death toll from a suspected adulterated alcohol mass poisoning in Laos rose to six Friday after an Australian teen backpacker died in a hospital in Thailand where she had been transferred for treatment.

Melbourne teenager Holly Bowles has passed away in Thailand a day after her friend Bianca Jones died, following a suspected mass methanol poisoning incident in Laos.

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