What to know about the search for the missing student Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic

Search efforts for a missing student from the University of Pittsburgh who disappeared on spring holidays, while in the Dominican Republican they have entered their second week.

Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was last seen at a hotel around 04:00 local time on March 6.

His disappearance is being investigated as a case of missing persons, since officials consider if Mrs. Konanki may have drowned.

The Attorney General of the Dominican Republic indicated that investigators are not ruling out the dirty game.

Mrs. Konanki is a 20 -year -old university student attending the University of Pittsburgh, where Biology and Chemistry studies.

The university junior traveled with a group of five friends to a resort in Punta Cana on a spring vacation trip, according to the Sheriff’s office of the Loudoun County.

She is a citizen of India and permanent resident of the United States. She lives with her family in Chantilly, Virginia, located in Loudoun County.

Mrs. Konanki was last seen early on the morning of March 6.

The surveillance video shows her and a group of friends walking to the beach.

I was with five women and two American men in the video.

Mrs. Konanki stayed on the beach with one of the men when the others returned to the hotel, Dominican police told the BBC CBS news partner.

Dominican President Luis Abinader said earlier this week during a press conference that the last person who had contact with Mrs. Konanki reported that a wave hit them while they were on the beach.

The parents of the man, Joshua Riibe, last seen with Mrs. Konanki issued a statement to CBS News saying that they hope Mrs. Konanki is “found as soon as possible.”

Riibe is a last year student at Station University of St Cloud in Minnesota.

“We recognize that this is a complex and painful situation for all parties involved, and we trust that the investigation will be carried out with transparency and justice. Our only interest is that due process is respected and that the actions are taken with the equity that the situation requires,” reads the statement.

The authorities said dozens of hours have spent looking for Mrs. Konanki.

The Dominican police are dividing search areas and assigning drones to certain sectors.

The pilots are monitoring images that are being loaded to a command center where AI seeks to identify objects in the ocean.

Search equipment is looking in water and on land.

Authorities say it is not clear if the dirty game was involved in the disappearance of Mrs. Konanki.

No blood or signs of violence on the beach were found.

The University of Pittsburgh, where Mrs. Konanki is a student, said in a statement that they are working with the Federal Research Office, the Drug Control Administration, the National Security Department and local authorities in response to her disappearance.

The International Criminal Police Organization, known as Interpol, issued a global alert after Mrs. Konanki disappeared.

The yellow warning is for missing persons as victims of kidnappings or “inexplicable disappearances.”