Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student, went missing in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on March 6. She was on spring break with friends and was last seen on the beach near her hotel at around 4:50 a.m. The F.B.I. joined the investigation into her disappearance and U.S. detectives have been sent to the Dominican Republic.

Konanki had been on a spring break trip, the posters stated. The missing person posters described Konanki as 5 feet and 3 inches tall with black hair and brown eyes. Konanki was last seen wearing a brown bikini,

According to edition.cnn.com, the 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student vanished at the beach on March 6. This sparked a frantic search by air, sea and land, involving authorities from the United States, the Dominican Republic and India, where her family is originally from.