A Chilean tourist has died and his engineering coworker is recovering after they were allegedly drugged at a bar and then beaten and robbed being dumped in a ditch in Rio de Janeiro.
Ronald Tejeda, 29, and his friend Andres Orellana, 29, had been in Brazil on vacation since last week and visited a bar in the town of Lapa on Saturday before they were attacked, police said.
Tejeda and Orellana were found lying next to each other in a 16-foot deep ditch on Sunday morning and rushed to Souza Aguilar Hospital, the fire department said.
Tejeda was diagnosed with a perforated lung, a head injury but died from a stroke, his brother, Jorge Tejeda, told Chilean news outlet Chilevisión Noticias.
Chilean engineer Ronald Tejeda was vacationing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a friend when they were reportedly drugged at a bar Saturday night. The pair was robbed and beaten before they were dumped in a ditch and rescued alive Sunday. But Tejeda suffered a stroke and died Wednesday
Andres Orellana (pictured) survived after he was drugged, beaten and robbed while vacationing with his coworker Ronald Tejeda in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. Orellana remains hospitalized and receiving treatment fractures to the ribs and clavicle and a punctured lung
‘It was a blow to the head, where he suffered a stroke,’ Jorge Tejeda said. ‘He fought, we all fought, but he lost his fight.
‘Let justice be done, find those who are responsible,’ he added. ‘Everything is difficult. Being there is difficult.’
Jorge Tejeda said there is a suspicion that Ronald Tejeda and Orellana were drugged by people they were sharing beers with.
Orellana, who was transferred to Pró-Cardíaco Hospital, had scratches on his chest, arms and legs as well as fractures to the ribs and clavicle and a punctured lung, his friend, Patricio Rodríguez, said in an interview with 24 Horas news outlet.
Orellana thanked well-wishers with a social media post Wednesday, but stopped short of providing details of what exactly happened.
‘For those of you who are asking how I’m doing, I promise to send you a message later. I’m moving to another hospital to redo other tests,’ he wrote. ‘At the moment, I’m stable and it will be a long recovery here in Brazil. For everyone who lived with Ronald, live each day as if it were the last.’
Brazilian investigators suggest that Ronald Tejeda and his friend may have been drugged with ‘Good night, Cinderella,’ a drug that debilitates a person and makes them vulnerable to being robbed, assaulted, and even raped.
Chilean nationals Andres Orellana (left) and Ronald Tejeda (right) were reportedly drugged at a bar in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday and then beaten and robbed. Orellana remains hospitalized but Tejeda died of a stroke on Wednesday
‘Good night, Cinderella,’ a drug that debilitates a person and makes them vulnerable to being robbed, assaulted, and even raped.
Rio de Janeiro authorities are investigating the attack on the tourists and did not reveal what was stolen.
They suggest that they were doped with the ‘Good night, Cinderella,’ a drug that debilitates a person and makes them vulnerable to being robbed, assaulted, and even raped.
Tejeda and Orellana ordered an Uber that picked them up at the bar and was taking them the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Copacabana before they lost contact with their loved ones.
‘They found them by accident, they could have spent months without finding them,’ Rodríguez said.
No arrests had been reported as of Thursday.
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