A student at Pittsburgh University in the United States disappeared in the Dominican Republic on March 6, starting a search involving authorities from the United States, the Dominican Republic and India.
Police said to CNN That the investigations revealed that other people were at the beach of the Riu República Hotel in Punta Cana, when Sudiksha Konanki, 20, disappeared. The searches have already entered the seventh day.
Sudiksha, who is from Lardon County in Virginia, traveled to Punta Cana with five friends from school. According to a police source, the women were drinking in the hotel lobby on the morning of March 6. Then, as they show images of surveillance cameras, they went to the hotel beach along with two men around 4:15 am on the local time.
Cameras later captured five women and a man leaving the beach around 4:55 am – but Sudiksha seems to have been behind with a man in his 20s, sources told the CNN . Surveillance cameras recorded the man leaving the beach just before 9 am, but a student was nowhere.
The Saronga Style Costume she wore was found in a sun lounger on the beach, but there were no signs of violence, a source said with the investigation to the investigation CNN .
In his interviews with the police, the young man, who is the last known person to have been with Sudiksha before he disappeared, remembered to get in the water, feel bad, get out of the water and lie on the beach while seeing the woman still stopped in the water with water to ankles. The man’s next memory was to wake up and leave the beach hours later, they said.
The man is cooperating with the investigation and the police do not consider him suspicious.
Video evidence indicates that there were more people on the beach at the time Sudiksha disappeared, police authorities said, and investigators are trying to identify them, but ask them to present any information about the student.
THE CNN You didn’t see the filming.
The night Sudiksha disappeared, sea conditions were dangerous, with high waves, said Agustín Morillo Rodríguez, Commander General of the Dominican Navy, to CNN on Wednesday (12).
Sudiksha’s disappearance happens almost two months after four tourists drowned in Punta Cana, on the same beach where the student was last seen, according to the Dominican Republic Civil Defense Agency. Strong currents swept the tourists of Arena Gorda beach, where Riu República Hotel is located, the agency said on January 18 in a Facebook post.
Dominican authorities previously said that they were investigating the disappearance as a drowning. But the Attorney General’s Office said on Wednesday (12) that authorities are also investigating if the case may extend “beyond a possible accidental event.”
“As in any disappearance in the circumstances of the case in question, we are applying a holistic investigation protocol that examines all variables,” said Attorney General Yeni Berenice Reynoso.
Sudiksha’s family, which originates from India, and Lardon County Sheriff Mike Chapman asked the authorities to consider other alternatives.
As other people were on the beach early March 6, without finding a body, authorities should take into account the possibility of the student to have found one or more of them, said the sheriff.
The parents of Sudiksha, Subbarayudu and Sreedi Konanki returned to Virginia this week after flying to Punta Cana with two family friends, according to Chapman. Subbarayudu asked the authorities to expand the investigation.
Subbarayudu told CNN Previously, it wants local authorities to also investigate other possibilities, including whether this is a case of kidnapping or trafficking in persons. ”
This content was originally published in a US student disappears on Caribbean beach and searches involve 3 countries on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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