Surveillance video of Pitt scholar lacking in Dominican Republic could present final photographs earlier than she disappeared
New surveillance video has surfaced exhibiting what are believed to be the final identified photographs of Sudiksha Konanki, the Pitt scholar who went lacking and disappeared whereas vacationing within the Dominican Republic.
The video, obtained by Noticias SIN, a Dominican media outlet, seems to indicate Konanki along with her associates and two different males once they had been strolling to the seaside in Punta Cana.
Konanki, 20, was on a spring break journey with associates 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 folks have grow to be concerned within the search efforts to seek out her and the Dominican Republic Nationwide Police have shaped what’s being referred to as a brand new, “high-level fee” to supervise the case of Konanki.
The investigation additionally consists of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Workplace in Konanki’s hometown in Virginia, The U.S. Legal professional Basic’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.
“Everyone’s form of working by way of this proper now. There’s quite a lot of of us which might be concerned, so we wish to make it possible for earlier than we put any info out, that we get it completely proper,” Loudon County Sheriff Mike Chapman mentioned.
Sudiksha Konanki’s disappearance being investigated as an accident
Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic, mentioned on Monday night that authorities are investigating the case as an accident.
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“We’re involved,” Abinader mentioned Monday throughout his weekly assembly with the press. “All authorities businesses are looking … as a result of the newest info we’ve from certainly one of them, from the final one that was with the younger lady, what he says based on the reviews is {that a} wave, whereas on the seaside, crashed into them.”
