Sudiksha Konanki: Mystery over Pittsburgh pupil who went lacking in Dominican Republic throughout Spring Break | EUROtoday

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A Pittsburgh University pupil who vanished within the Dominican Republic on Spring Break is feared useless.

Sudiksha Konanki, 20, arrived within the nation final Monday and was staying with 5 different feminine school buddies at a resort in Punta Cana, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office stated.

Three Dominican officers near the investigation instructed ABC News Sudiksha drowned after she and a good friend had been caught by a giant wave whereas going for a swim. However, a physique has but to be discovered and her father needs different potentialities investigated, together with “kidnapping or human trafficking”.

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Subbarayudu Konanki, her father, instructed CNN that his daughter was on trip forward of pre-med research at Pittsburgh U.

“My daughter is a very nice girl,” he stated. “She’s ambitious. She wanted to pursue a career in medicine.”

Sudiksha instructed her buddies Wednesday that she was heading out to a celebration on the resort, her father stated.

“She went to the beach on March 6, early morning around 4 a.m. with friends and some other guys they met at the resort,” he instructed CNN. “After that, her friends came back after some time and my daughter did not come back, did not show up from the beach.”

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Sudiksha was final seen within the early hours of Thursday when she walked onto the seaside of the Riu resort, with a good friend who’s now underneath investigation, based on Dominican police.

Her buddies alerted authorities when she couldn’t be discovered. She was reported lacking at 8am on Friday by the U.S. embassy within the Dominican Republic.

A younger man who went into the ocean with Sudiksha has been interviewed and authorities are speaking to a number of others to corroborate the model of occasions he supplied within the preliminary interview, stated the Policía Nacional República Dominicana.

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The 20-year-old was captured on CCTV surveillance “just a few meters from entering the beach area” at round 4.15am alongside the group of “young foreigners”, acknowledged the Policía Nacional.

A lacking individuals poster described Sudiksha as 5 ft and three inches tall with black hair and brown eyes. She was final seen sporting a brown bikini, huge spherical earrings, a metallic designer anklet on her proper leg, yellow and metal bracelets on her proper hand, and a multicolored beaded bracelet on her left hand.

Dominican authorities have carried out an in depth sea, air, and land, search utilizing drone and helicopter surveillance, in addition to divers, boats, canine models and human personnel.

“The Public Prosecutor’s Office, together with investigative officers from the Central Investigation Directorate (DICRIM) and Politur, are interviewing several people, mainly the companions of the missing young woman, whose names are being withheld, in order to establish the exact location of the maritime search and its surroundings.”

The Independent Contact the National Police Dominican Republic for Comment.