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(NewsNation) — Authorities successful the Dominican Republic person confiscated the passport of the past idiosyncratic known to person seen University of Pittsburgh pupil Sudiksha Konanki earlier she disappeared, according to NBC News.
Konanki, 20, was past seen connected March 6 adjacent the RIU Hotel & Resort successful Punta Cana, wherever she had traveled for outpouring interruption with 5 friends. She was reportedly connected the formation with a 22-year-old American man earlier vanishing.
The man, a assemblage elder from a Minnesota school, has not been named arsenic a suspect, but his lawyers confirmed that helium has been required to enactment astatine the edifice and is nether changeless constabulary escort. “So no, helium is not escaped to leave,” the instrumentality steadfast said successful an email to NBC News.
NewsNation is not naming the idiosyncratic due to the fact that officials successful the Dominican Republic stated that nary 1 has been identified arsenic a suspect, and they bash not usage the word “person of interest.”
In an interrogation with investigators, helium said helium and Konanki went into the water together, wherever they were caught by a question and pulled retired to sea. He claimed helium managed to bring her backmost toward enactment but aboriginal mislaid show of her.
“The past clip I saw her, I asked if she was OK. I didn’t perceive her answer,” helium told authorities, according to a transcript obtained by NBC News. He said helium assumed she had near the formation but was shocked to larn aboriginal that she was missing.
A transcript of his constabulary interrogation states that surveillance footage captured him and Konanki walking to the formation with her friends. Around 5:50 a.m., the radical returned to the hotel, leaving the brace alone.
He told investigators they waded into waist-deep water, kissed and were past deed by a beardown wave. He claimed helium swallowed seawater portion trying to support her afloat but was capable to bring her person to shore.
Afterward, helium said helium vomited from ingesting brackish h2o and mislaid way of her. “I passed retired connected the formation and woke up hours later,” helium told authorities, per NBC News.
Konanki’s friends reported her missing astir 4 p.m. aboriginal that day. Authorities subsequently recovered items believed to beryllium to her, including a achromatic sarong and a brace of beige flip-flops, near adjacent a acceptable of formation chairs.
U.S. authorities are treating the lawsuit arsenic a missing persons investigation.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office successful Virginia, wherever Konanki’s household lives, has sent detectives to the Dominican Republic to assistance successful the U.S. broadside of the investigation.
The Dominican Republic’s National Police person not commented connected whether they judge foul play was involved. No charges person been filed successful the case.
Konanki is simply a national of India and a imperishable U.S. resident.
