College of Pittsburgh pupil Sudiksha Konanki was probably solely on the seaside the place she went lacking due to an influence outage at her Dominican Public resort — one which additionally disabled some safety methods and cameras, in line with a report.
The ability went out at Riu República Lodge into the early hours of March 6, the day Konanki, 20, with many visitors — together with Konanki and her pals — leaving the darkened Punta Cana resort for the seaside, Dominican Right now reported.
As a result of the seaside space is often off-limits at evening, it meant it was unsupervised — and the outage additionally disrupted lighting, safety methods and surveillance cameras, the native outlet mentioned.
The ability was nonetheless out round 4 a.m., the time that Konanki was final seen strolling alongside the seaside with a bunch of buddies. She was additionally pictured together with her arm round a person within the final identified picture of her earlier than she vanished.
She had been with six different folks on the seaside Wednesday earlier than many of the group known as it an evening, leaving her on the sand alone with Joshua Steven Ribe, a fellow visitor on the Caribbean resort who gave cops conflicting tales about what transpired when it was simply the 2 of them on the seaside.
Police haven’t mentioned if they think foul play. The FBI joined in on the search on Tuesday.
Dominican President Luis Abinader mentioned he was “concerned” concerning the scenario.
“All government agencies are searching … because the latest information we have from one of them, from the last person who was with the young woman, what he says according to the reports is that a wave, while on the beach, crashed into them,” he mentioned Monday throughout his weekly assembly with the press.
Dominican authorities have speculated that the pre-med pupil probably drowned after leaping into the ocean in a brown bikini, whereas her father has known as to develop search efforts over his “growing suspicion” she was kidnapped.
