The two Australian teenagers who have been left fighting for their lives after reportedly consuming cocktails laced with methanol while travelling through Southeast Asia have been named.

Two Melbourne teenagers on a ‘dream getaway’ became gravely ill after they drank cocktails laced with methanol.

Two Australian teenagers are fighting for their lives in Thailand after a suspected methanol poisoning in neighbouring Laos, with the family of one them saying they were struggling to comprehend what had happened.

Two Melbourne teenagers fighting for life in Thailand after drinking cocktails laced with methanol would have had no way of knowing their drinks had been poisoned, an expert says. Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, both 19, were among a group of people believed to have fallen ill in the mass poisoning incident in the Laos town of Vang Vieng last week.

The family of an Australian woman gravely ill in Thailand is praying for her, after she and her best friend suffered apparent methanol poisoning in Laos.