International authorities are looking for a disappeared student from the University of Pittsburgh who disappeared during a spring vacation trip to the Dominican Republic last week.
Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was with a group of six students visiting Punta Cana when she disappeared, according to the Sheriff’s Bureau of Loudoun in Virginia. Konanki’s family resides in Virginia and the agency was contacted on Thursday to report their disappearance.
The Sheriff’s Bureau of the county of Loudoun declared that he was working with the Dominican authorities and the state and federal agencies. As Konanki is also a citizen of India, the Sheriff’s office said that the Indian Embassy in the Dominican Republic took the initiative to work with the police and the State Department.
“Our office supports these efforts and continues to investigate locally,” said the sheriff’s office.
The Civil Defense of the Altagracia, the local emergency operations agency of the Dominican Republic, said that it coordinated in -depth research.
“Several brigades have been deployed by the sea and the land, to find fate from abroad,” the agency said in a press release on Facebook.
A spokesperson for the University of Pittsburgh has urged anyone with information on the disappearance of Konanki to contact the Sheriff’s Bureau of Loudoun.
“University officials are in contact with the family of Sudiksha Konanki as well as the county authorities of Loudoun, Virginia, and we offered our total support in their efforts to find and bring her home,” said the spokesman.
