- New information has revealed that other people were on the beach when US college student Sudiksha Konanki went missing in the Dominican Republic, law enforcement officials assisting with the investigation told CNN, as the search enters its seventh day.
- The 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student vanished at the beach of the Riu República Hotel in Punta Cana early on March 6, sparking a frantic search by air, sea and land, involving authorities from the United States, the Dominican Republic and India, where Konanki’s family is originally from.
- “This is one of the largest operations we have carried out for the rescue of a person,” Agustín Morillo Rodríguez, general commander of the Dominican Republic Navy, told CNN on Wednesday.
- Video evidence points to additional people being on the beach around the time Konanki went missing, beyond a young man who’d told police he’d been with her there, the law enforcement officials assisting with the probe said. Investigators are trying to identify these people while asking that they come forward with any information about Konanki.
- CNN has not seen the footage.
- Because other people were around the beach early on March 6, without discovering a body authorities must allow for the possibility Konanki may have encountered one or more of them.
- Dominican officials had previously said they were investigating Konanki’s disappearance as a drowning. But the general prosecutor’s office said Wednesday officials are also investigating whether Konanki’s disappearance could extend “beyond a possible accidental event.”
- Konanki, who is from Loudoun County, Virginia, traveled to Punta Cana with five female friends from her school. The women had been drinking in the hotel’s lobby early on March 6 before surveillance cameras captured them entering the hotel beach
New Details Emerge in US Student’s Dominican Republic Disappearance, Others Present on Beach
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