The missing university family if Pittsburgh student, Sudiksha Konanki, has asked the police in the Dominican Republic to declare their dead, a police spokesman said Monday.
The spokesman of the National Police of the Dominican Republic, Diego Pesqueira, said that his family has sent a letter requesting a declaration of death to the law agency.
Konanki, 20, was on spring vacation with friends in the Nation of the Caribbean island when it disappeared in the early hours of March 6. Despite an extensive search, your body has not been found.
The Konanki family did not respond immediately to a comment request on Monday night.
Konanki is Junior in Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is from Loudoun County, Virginia, where her family lives.
Konanki was last seen at the beginning of March 6 after going to the beach with friends.
After his friends left the beach, he stayed with people he met on the trip. She disappeared after 4:15 am that day.
The last person who believes is to have seen Konanki has been identified as Joshua Riibe, a 22 -year -old student at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota who is Rock Rapids, Iowa.
The Dominican authorities confiscated Riibe’s passport on Friday as part of an investigation, their lawyers told NBC News.
Riibe was seen by NBC News with the researchers and his lawyer on a beach in Punta Cana on early Sunday. He was seen pointing to the sea while a group of security officials kept the people away from the area.
Speaking exclusively with NBC News briefly in the complex where Konanki had stayed before he disappeared, Riibe said: “I’m just trying to help them” and added: “The ocean is a dangerous place.”
Riibe “has been confined to the hotel since the investigation began.
Pesqueira, spokesman for the National Police, said no signs of beach violence were found.
A hotel spokesman said that the red flags, which indicate “that the sea had a strong and very high waves,” they flew when Konanki disappeared.
In an interview last week with Dominican researchers, Riibe said he was on the beach with Konanki shortly before she disappeared.
He said they were “in water to the waist, speaking and kissing a little,” according to a transcription of the interview obtained by NBC News. A wave crashed, taking them to both “outside the sea,” he quotes saying.
“I kept trying to breathe, but that did not allow me to breathe all the time, and I swallowed a lot of water,” he said.
Riibe said he took Konanki to the shore before she disappeared.
“The last time I saw her, I asked if I was fine.” I looked around and I didn’t see anyone.
The authorities of the Dominican Republic have said that no one is considered suspicious in Konanki’s disappearance.
US authorities have said that it is a case of missing persons and not a criminal issue.
