Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching for a student from the University of Pittsburgh on the Caribbean nation’s east coast.

An Indian American tourist from  Virginia named Sudiksha Konanki has been missing since Thursday, March 6, in the morning, when she went out for a walk along the beach in the company of five people. The young woman is staying at the Riu República hotel in the Arena Gorda area.

International authorities are searching for a missing University of Pittsburgh student who disappeared while on a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic last week. Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was with a group of students visiting Punta Cana when she went missing,