A group of West Midlands 20-year olds have been hospitalized after drinking alcohol thought to be mixed with methanol on a Greek party island.
The seven friends from Coventry – and two other tourists also visiting the island – were hit by the dangerous concoction that made them violently ill.
One of the sick party-goers said that he’d been warned by reps about a few of the bars in Laganas – Zante’s busiest and most notorious resort.
Nine more British tourists have been rushed to hospital in Greece after drinking toxic alcoholic cocktails thought to contain cheap methanol (stock picture)
Business studies student Jack Taylor told the Sun: ‘We avoided those, but were violently ill.
‘We were taken to hospital and all of us ended up in UK hospitals afterwards.’
The eighth Brit hit by the dangerous cocktail was teaching assistant Lauren Blair from Birmingham.
The 22-year-old was so sick that she ruptured her gullet from vomiting and suffered faded vision.
After being put in two Greek hospitals and one back home in the UK, Lauren said: ‘I was so frightened. I thought I was going to die.’
James Rambukpitiya also left the party island having had his holiday tainted by toxic alcohol.
He said: ‘I felt faint and my limbs shook.’

Lauren Blair, a 22-year-old teaching assistant, was so sick that she ruptured her gullet from vomiting and suffered faded vision. She said: ‘ I thought I was going to die.’ (stock picture)
He had been celebrating the end of A-Levels with friends from Havering Sixth Form College in Hornchurch, Essex, but came home with liver damage.
Last week it was reported that a group of young men from Northumberland, all aged between 17 and 18, had also been rushed to hospital on their second night out on the part island.
The boys said almost all of them became violently sick, despite some only having three drinks the entire night.
They had flown to the party town of Laganas to celebrate leaving their Northumberland high school in late July.
Cole Brunton, 18, said he had methanol poisoning and told the Sun: ‘It’s inhuman. I know 100 per cent that we got ill because we were poisoned.
‘I can’t put into words how angry I feel that someone is prepared to put lives at risk to make a few quid.
‘Our vomit was red and black. One of the lads was in bed and started having a fit, shaking uncontrollably.’