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A hunt is connected for a University of Pittsburgh pupil who went missing portion connected a outpouring interruption travel to the Dominican Republic.

Sudiksha Konanki, 20, a national of India and a U.S. nonmigratory who lives with her household successful Virginia, was traveling with 5 different pistillate students from her assemblage successful Punta Cana past week erstwhile she disappeared.

She was reported missing March 6 and appears to person vanished betwixt 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. that morning, a Loudoun County Sheriff's Office spokesperson told NBC News, adding that authorities are looking astatine each possibilities.

“Right present it runs the gamut from thing accidental to foul play," the spokesperson said. "It is each astatine this constituent nether consideration. Nothing's been ruled out."

Sheriff Michael Chapman told NBC News that connected the greeting of her disappearance, Konanki went to the formation with friends and that they returned, but she did not.

The embassy of India successful the Dominican Republic has taken the pb moving with the U.S. State Department and section instrumentality enforcement connected the ground, the office's spokesperson added.

Local government-funded bureau Defensa Civil Dominicana said Konanki disappeared aboriginal March 6 portion walking connected a formation successful the state of Altagracia and that hunt and rescue efforts, which includes the usage of drones, helicopters, boats, divers and canine units, were ongoing, quality transmission Telenoticias reported March 9.

The different students who traveled with Konanki person stayed down to assistance successful the hunt alternatively of returning to the United States arsenic scheduled, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said. Konanki's parents person besides traveled from Virginia to the Dominican Republic, according to Pittsburgh TV presumption WTAE.

Konanki is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, has achromatic hairsbreadth and brownish eyes and was past seen successful the aboriginal hours wearing a brownish bikini, large circular earrings, a metallic decorator anklet and respective bracelets, according to a flyer circulating connected societal media and posted by Dominican Today, a section English-language quality outlet.

The pupil was staying astatine the Riu República edifice earlier she went missing. "We person been moving intimately with section authorities, including the Police and Navy," the Riu Hotels & Resorts edifice concatenation said successful a connection to Dominican Today, "to transportation retired a thorough search."

The University of Pittsburgh said it is successful interaction with the Konanki's household arsenic good arsenic authorities successful Loudoun County, Virginia. "We person offered our afloat enactment successful their efforts to find her," a spokesperson told NBC News, "and bring her location safely."

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