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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Alcohol safety ads to target young Australian travellers amid push for answers over methanol deaths

Bianca Jones (left) and Holly Bowles
Bianca Jones (left) and Holly Bowles died after drinking alcohol tainted with methanol on holiday in Laos. Photograph: Supplied by family

The Australian government will launch a new alcohol safety campaign targeting young travellers as the families of Melbourne teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, who died after drinking alcohol tainted with methanol while on holiday in Laos, continue to push for answers.

The friends, both 19, died in November last year while on holiday in Laos, in a suspected mass methanol poisoning that resulted in the deaths of six foreign tourists.

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