Sudiksha Konanki had traveled to the Dominican Republic a week ago with five girlfriends on a spring break trip.

Sudishka Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student from Virginia was last seen walking on a beach outside the RIU Republica Resort in the Dominican Republic on March 6.

Police in the Dominican Republic say the FBI has joined the search for a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who went missing nearly a week ago while on spring break.

A student at the University of Pittsburgh, Konanki was vacationing with five female college friends at a resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, when she went missing on March 6, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Monday.

CNN By Rafael Romo, Susannah Cullinane and José Álvarez, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching on land, by air and in the water for a University of Pittsburgh student who disappeared last week on spring break in Punta Cana.

Sudiksha Konanki was last seen on Thursday. She was in the Dominican Republic on spring break with her friends. Her father Subbarayudu Konanki has asked the authorities to look into a possible criminal angle behind her disappearance,

University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who went missing in the Dominican Republic after going on an early morning beach walk last week, is believed to have drowned, ABC News reported on Monday,

Sudiksha Konanki was last seen before dawn on March 6 at a beach near the resort where she was staying with friends.

A missing 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student in the Dominican Republic likely died in the ocean by drowning, authorities announced Monday.

Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was last seen in the early morning of March 6 entering the beach of the Punta Cana hotel she was staying at with her friends.

University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki went missing in the tourist town of Punta Cana while on spring break with friends.