Authorities believe the University of Pittsburgh student who vanished in the Dominican Republic last week drowned after she was caught in a big wave, according to a report. Sudiksha Konanki, 20 ...

The family of missing University if Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki have asked police in the Dominican Republic to declare her dead, a police spokesman said Monday.

An American who was the last person believed to have been seen with missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic was back in the U.S. on Wednesday.

Parents of missing Pitt student ask Dominican Republic police declare her dead Konanki, 20, disappeared early March 6 on spring break with friends in the Dominican Republic. A body hasn't been found.

The FBI has joined the search for 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who went missing while on spring break in the Dominican Republic tourist town of Punta Cana.