- By Nidhi Giri
- Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:08 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Search is underway for a 20-year-old Indian-origin student who went missing while on her spring break trip with classmates in the Dominican Republic. According to the New York Post, Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student, was reported missing on Thursday, while travelling with a group in the resort town of Punta Cana.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Konanki went missing while "walking the beach" and has not been seen or heard from since.
"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 Loudoun County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said on Saturday, as per the Post.
The 20-year-old is said to have vanished while walking on the beach wearing a bikini, local officials said.
A missing person's poster describes her as 5 feet 3 inches, 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 left hand, the poster detailed.
"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, according to the outlet.
Defensa Civil, a search and rescue team based in the Dominican Republic, set out to look for her Saturday evening, but around 8 pm the crew called off the search for the day. Defensa Civil said the search for Konanki would continue on Sunday.