Search intensifies for missing US student in Dominican Republic
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Authorities have ramped up their efforts by air, sea and land to track down the 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who went missing six days ago while vacationing in the Dominican Republic resort town of Punta Cana.
Authorities have ramped up their efforts by air, sea and land to track down the 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who went missing six days ago while vacationing in the Dominican Republic resort town of Punta Cana. Sudiksha Konanki, 20, vanished at the beach of the Riu República Hotel in the early hours of March 6, sparking a frantic pursuit involving authorities from the Dominican Republic, the United States and India, where Konanki’s family is originally from. Nearly one week after she was last seen, there are few concrete clues about what might have happened to her. The Dominican Republic National Police said Monday it formed a “high-level commission” to work on the investigation, alongside the General Prosecutor’s Office, the FBI and the International Liaison of the US Embassy. The Dominican President Luis Abinader said in a news conference Monday authorities are investigating Konanki’s disappearance as an “accident” and conducting a “special search operation in the ocean.” “We are concerned,” he said. “All government agencies are searching.”
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