A tourist from Chile, 29-year-old Ronald Tejeda Sobarzo, died this Wednesday at the Sousa Aguiar Hospital in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, three days after he was found fainting and with serious injuries on a public road nearby. with another Chilean from whom he traveled to Brazil, Andres Orellana Ruiz, of the same age. Andrés, also seriously injured, was transferred from Sousa Aguiar to the Procardiaco hospital in the southern part of the capital Fluminense, where he was still in hospital this Thursday.
Ronald and Andrés disappeared on Saturday evening while they were in the bohemian Lapa district, in Rio’s central district, and were found unconscious around 10 am on Sunday morning in Miradouro do Rato Mollado, in Santa Teresa, also in the city. center. People called firefighters when they found two Chileans passed out and seriously injured at this tourist spot and both were taken to the hospital, but Ronald couldn’t take the serious injuries and ended up dying.
According to the first investigation by DEAT, the Specialized Tourist Support Office, Ronald and Andrés, who left Chile together to discover the formerly known as “Cidade Maravillosa”, were the victims of criminals who ran a scam known as “Goodnight Cinderella”. when a sedative is slipped into someone’s drink to intoxicate and steal. The two were brutally attacked, mostly on the head and face, and were left without their belongings.
Two friends who, according to their families, drank very little, felt sick even in Lapa, an area full of bars, and called a car so the app could return to Copacabana, in the southern part of Rio, where they were staying. . It was on the way between Lapa and Copacabana, back on Saturday night, during which a message was sent to family members that they suspected they had been drugged, that Ronald and Andres had disappeared but were found in a different area the next day, with nothing to show for it. value and with obvious traces of a brutal beating.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This Correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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