Photos Show Clothes Believed to Belong to Missing College Student Sudiksha Konanki on a Beach Chair: Report

Clothes that are believed to beryllium to missing assemblage pupil Sudiksha Konanki person been recovered connected a formation seat adjacent wherever she was past seen.

The 20-year-old assemblage junior, who was staying with six pistillate University of Pittsburgh students astatine the Riu República Hotel successful Punta Cana successful the Dominican Republic, was past seen walking connected a formation connected Thursday, March 6. Some of the apparel she wore during these moments were aboriginal recovered strewn connected a adjacent formation chair, according to Dominican quality outlet CDN, which shared the photos.

Just earlier she disappeared, Konanki was caught connected surveillance footage walking successful a achromatic swimsuit cover-up, which was aboriginal discovered connected a achromatic chaise lounge connected the beach, per the images obtained by the outlet.

CDN besides reported that the missing student’s sandals were discovered adjacent the aforesaid lounge chair.

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Sources adjacent to the probe antecedently told ABC News and Dominican quality outlet El Nacional that Konanki’s apparel were recovered connected the formation and determination were nary signs of violence.

Dominican constabulary besides confirmed to PEOPLE that apparel had been found, though they did not stock immoderate much details astatine the time.

Konanki, a nonmigratory of Loudon County, Va. and a national of India, was past seen connected video surveillance cameras with a radical walking onto the formation astir 4:15 a.m. section clip connected March 6, per the Dominican Republic National Police.

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She was seen successful the footage walking arm-in-arm with a man, aboriginal identified arsenic 22-year-old assemblage pupil Joshua Riibe, connected her mode to the beach.

Riibe was named a “person of interest," but not a suspect. He and Konanki spent clip connected the formation “kissing” anterior to her disappearance, Riibe told section authorities successful an interrogation transcript obtained by NBC News.

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The antheral — who whitethorn beryllium the past idiosyncratic that saw Konanki — told section investigators that the brace were “in waist-deep water, talking and kissing a little," erstwhile a question crashed, sweeping them some "out to sea," per the outlet.

“I kept trying to get her to breathe, but that didn’t let maine to respire each the time, and I swallowed a batch of water," helium claimed.

Riibe, who is presently detained astatine the Riu República amid the missing idiosyncratic case, besides told investigators helium got himself and Konanki backmost to enactment safely, and said, “The past clip I saw her, I asked if she was okay,” but erstwhile helium didn’t perceive oregon spot her, “thought she’d grabbed her things and left.”

After Konanki’s classmates reported her missing, Dominican National Police said an "exhaustive hunt was launched by sea, aerial and land” to find her. Dominican authorities accidental they judge that she drowned, per an earlier study from ABC News, though her assemblage has not been recovered.

Konanki’s household antecedently told USA Today that they are "going done an incredibly hard time" and "are profoundly saddened” successful her absence.

"We kindly petition privateness arsenic we header with this challenging infinitesimal together," the family’s connection concluded.

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