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.

Officials believe a University of Pittsburgh student missing since Thursday in the Dominican Republic died of drowning, according to a report by ABC News. A search is continuing for Sudiksha Konanki,

Authorities in the United States and the Dominican Republic are searching for a University of Pittsburgh student who has gone missing in the Caribbean country.

Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching for a 20-year-old university student from the U.S. who went missing in the popular tourist town of Punta Cana while on vacation. Sudiksha Konanki was last seen before dawn on March 6 at a beach near the resort where she was staying with several friends,

Subbarayudu said that before she went missing, Sudiksha had told her friends that she was heading to a party at the resort.

Investigators are working to find a missing University of Pittsburgh student last seen at a resort in the Dominican Republic.

Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was last seen in the early hours on March 6 at a beach near the hotel where she was staying in Punta Cana.

Sudiksha Konanki was traveling with six other female students in Punta Cana when authorities said she drowned in the ocean.