A search is on for a University of Pittsburgh student who went lacking while on a spring spoil day out to the Dominican Republic.

Sudiksha Konanki, 20, a citizen of India and a U.S. resident who lives with her household in Virginia, became traveling with 5 assorted feminine college students from her faculty in Punta Cana final week when she disappeared.

She became reported lacking March 6 and looks to have vanished between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. that morning, a Loudoun County Sheriff's Position of business spokesperson suggested NBC Details, including that authorities are having a have a look in any appreciate potentialities.

“Most attention-grabbing now it runs the gamut from something unintended to coarse play,” the spokesperson talked about. “It’s all at this level below consideration. Nothing's been ruled out.”

Sheriff Michael Chapman suggested NBC Details that on the morning of her disappearance, Konanki went to the beach with visitors and that they returned, but she did now not.

The embassy of India within the Dominican Republic has taken the lead working with the U.S. Utter Division and native law enforcement on the ground, the station of job's spokesperson added.

Local authorities-funded company Defensa Civil Dominicana talked about Konanki disappeared early March 6 while walking on a beach within the province of Altagracia and that search and rescue efforts, which contains the usage of drones, helicopters, boats, divers and canines gadgets, have been ongoing, news channel Telenoticias reported March 9.

The assorted college students who traveled with Konanki have stayed at the relieve of to lend a hand within the quest as a substitute of returning to the United States as scheduled, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Position of business spokesperson talked about. Konanki's parents have also traveled from Virginia to the Dominican Republic, in step with Pittsburgh TV station WTAE.

Konanki is 5 feet, 3 inches huge, has dusky hair and brown eyes and became final seen within the early hours carrying a brown bikini, immense spherical earrings, a steel fashion designer anklet and plenty of different bracelets, in step with a flyer circulating on social media and posted by Dominican As we scream, a native English-language news outlet.

The student became staying at the Riu República resort forward of she went lacking. “We now have been working closely with native authorities, including the Police and Navy,” the Riu Hotels & Accommodations resort chain talked about in an announcement to Dominican As we scream, “to attain a thorough search.”

The University of Pittsburgh talked about it’s miles in contact with the Konanki's household in addition to authorities in Loudoun County, Virginia. “We now have supplied our stout fortify in their efforts to catch her,” a spokesperson suggested NBC Details, “and lift her residence safely.”

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