Panta Cana, Dominican Republic – The State Department on Tuesday confirmed Fox News Digital that it is assisting a witness in the disappearance of Sudiiksha Konanki, a student of Pittsburgh from the Republic of Dominican, on March 6.
The 20 -year -old Konanki has been missing since the morning of 6 March, when she went to swim in the sea with a witness, after drinking in a hotel bar, Panta Cain was identified as 22 -year -old Joshua Reebe, outside the Ru Republic Resort in Panta Cain. He is still located.
The Foreign Department said in a statement, “We take our commitment seriously to help American citizens abroad and are providing consular assistance.” “Due to privacy ideas, we have no other comments.”
Konanki went to the beach with a group of seven other friends after one night of drinking. His six friends returned to the Riu Republic around 6 am, leaving the 20 -year -old student alone with Reebe, who was also on a spring break in Riu Republic and is believed to have been considered one of the last people to see alive.
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20 -year -old Sudi Konanki of Northern Virginia was first reported to be disappeared from a beach in the Republic of Dominican on Thursday, 6 March. (Handout, Left, and Dephensa Citizen Dominicana, Right.)
Konanki’s disappearance is considered a witness, which was apparently told to the Dominican authorities that when they were swimming, a large wave had crashed on them, which was shared to the police according to a translated transaction of their interviews.
He said that he tried to help him and last looked at him with deep knee water. Then she started vomiting seawater and saw that Konanki was no longer in sight and she assumed that she had returned to her hotel room. Reebe said that he eventually slept on a beach chair before returning to his room.
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Local authorities discovered the Sudi Konanki, a missing American student at the Dominican Republic, on Friday, March 14, 2025 in the Dominican Republic. 20, 20, Konanki was last seen on 6 March 2025 on a beach outside the five -star RIU Republic Resort in the Republic of Dominican. (Fox News Digital)
The hotel monitoring footage shows the rib returning to his hotel room around 9 am on March 6.
Ribb has since been detained in Dominican and has filed a writ of captive corpus on Monday, challenging their actual custody in the country. Sources said that a hearing is expected on Tuesday in which a judge would rule on whether he could return home.
Konanki’s parents, Subbaraudu and Sridevi Konanki, according to a letter sent to Dominican Police on Monday, are not disputed Rib’s account. His father had earlier asked the police to investigate all possibilities.
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Local authorities discovered the Dominican Republic, Wednesday, March 11, 2025, the Missing American student Sudi Konanki at the Dominican Republic. 20, Konanki was last seen on a beach outside the RIU Republic Resort on March 6, 2025 at the Republic of Dominican. (Santiago badges for Fox News Digital)
“After a widespread discovery, Dominican officials concluded that Sudiksha is drowned,” her parents wrote in a letter to the country’s National Police Force La Polisia National on Monday night. “Her clothes were discovered on a beach where she was last seen. The last person seen with her is cooperating with the investigation, and not Evidence of dishonesty have got it.”
He said that he requested after “a lot of discussions” and thanked the supporters for international search efforts.
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Investigators have expanded the search area as a Sudi Konanki, a student of American college, after disappearing from a beach at Panta Cana on 6 March 2025. (Fox News Graphics)
The Loudown County Sheriff Office in Virginia, where Konanki is, shared a statement, shared her family confidence that she drowned.
Sheriff’s office said, “The final decision to make such an announcement rests with the authorities in the Dominican Republic, we will support the Konanki family in every way as we continue to review the evidence and information provided to us during this investigation.”
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Riibe, on a senior St. Cloud State University in Minnesota Which has not been accused of crime, but is considered an important witness in the case, the resort has been conducted under surveillance as Konanki was reported to be missing.
The Republic of Dominican, Panta Cana, on March 11, 2025, sit on the beach on the beach along the sea at the RIU Republic Resort in the Republic of Dominican. 20, 20, Konanki was last seen on 6 March on a beach outside the RIU Republic Resort in the Dominican Republic. (Santiago badges for Fox News Digital)
His family has called his continuous essential presence in the country “irregular”.
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Riibe is not accused of crime, but the authorities confiscated their passports, while his account was investigated.
Sources said the hearing on the captive petition is expected to be held on Tuesday afternoon, but the time may change.
