Authorities in the Dominican Republic are interviewing a young man believed to have been with a missing student from the University of Pittsburgh right before her disappearance in Punta Cana, a local police source told CNN.

Punta Cana.- Dominican authorities are intensifying their search for Sudiksha Konanki Chowdary, a 20-year-old tourist from India residing in the U.S., who went missing in Punta Cana. The National Police (PN) and Public Ministry (MP) are leading the investigation,

Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching for a University of Pittsburgh student who went missing in Punta Cana on March 6. Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was last seen in the early hours of Thursday morning at a beach near the Riu Republica Hotel where she was staying with her five friends.