Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching for a
20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who went missing while “walking on
the beach” in her bikini in Punta Cana while on her spring break trip with
classmates.
Sudiksha Konanki, from a tony Washington, DC suburb, was
reported missing on Thursday while traveling with a group in the resort town,
officials with the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office told 13 News Now.
Konanki disappeared while “walking on the beach” in the
Caribbean island-nation, authorities added.
“Our office was contacted on Thursday evening about a
missing female from Loudoun County who was with a group of other people
traveling in the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana specifically,” a LCSO
spokesperson said Saturday.
Konanki was last seen around 4:50 a.m. on the beach at Riu
Republica Resort, WTAE reported.
A missing persons poster described Konanki as 5 feet, 3
inches tall with black hair and brown eyes.
At the time she went missing, she was wearing a brown,
bikini, big round earrings, a metal designer anklet on her right leg, yellow
and steel bracelets on her right hand and a multicolored beaded bracelet on her
right hand.
In a statement, University of Pittsburgh officials said they
were working with Konanki’s family and local authorities in Virginia, who were
helping in the search.
“University officials are in contact with Sudiksha Konanki’s
family as well as authorities in Loudoun County, Virginia, and we have offered
our full support in their efforts to find her and bring her home safely,”
university spokesperson Jared Stonesifer said.
Defensa Civil, a Dominican Republic search and rescue force,
started searching for the missing student Saturday and had plans to resume
their search early Sunday morning.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Loudoun
County Sheriff’s Office.
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