Surveillance video of Pitt student missing in Dominican Republic may show last known images before she disappeared

New surveillance video has surfaced displaying what are believed to be the final recognized photographs of Sudiksha Konanki, the Pitt student who went missing and disappeared while vacationing in the Dominican Republic. 

The video, obtained by Noticias SIN, a Dominican media outlet, reveals Konanki together with her associates and two different males once they have been strolling to the seashore in Punta Cana.

Konanki, 20, was on a spring break trip with friends within the Dominican vacationer city and was reported lacking later that day. 

Authorities are looking on land and water for any indicators of Konanki, who was final seen on the Riu Republica Lodge round 4 a.m. Thursday, March 6. 

Greater than 300 individuals have turn out to be concerned within the search efforts to seek out her and the Dominican Republic Nationwide Police have shaped what’s being known as a brand new, “high-level fee” to supervise the case of Konanki. 

The investigation additionally consists of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Konanki’s hometown in Virginia, The U.S. Lawyer Normal’s Workplace, the FBI, and the Worldwide Liaison of the U.S. Embassy.

The sheriff’s workplace acknowledged there’s been “appreciable public hypothesis” about what occurred to Konanki however cautioned towards drawing any conclusions. 

“All people’s form of working by means of this proper now. There’s quite a lot of of us which can be concerned, so we wish to make it possible for earlier than we put any data out, that we get it completely proper,” Loudon County Sheriff Mike Chapman stated.

Sudiksha Konanki’s disappearance being investigated as an accident

Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic, stated on Monday night that authorities are investigating the case as an accident.  

“We’re involved,” Abinader stated Monday throughout his weekly assembly with the press. “All authorities businesses are looking … as a result of the newest data now we have from one in every of them, from the final one who was with the younger girl, what he says in keeping with the studies is {that a} wave, whereas on the seashore, crashed into them.”