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A young British tourist is lucky to be alive after he was drugged and robbed by three women in a horrific ‘good night, Cindarella’ scam.

The phrase is Brazilian slang for using drugs to incapacitate someone and then robbing or assaulting them, and in this instance, it caused the young man to drop unconscious on the sands of Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro.

In the early hours of August 8, the 21-year-old victim, clearly disoriented, staggered along the beachfront before collapsing face-first into the sand.

Moments earlier, three women, believed to be the suspects, ran along the street and jumped into a taxi before quickly leaving the area.

The victim had been partying

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