The newly emerging and last known image of Suddiksha Konanki, a missing University of Pittsburgh student, shows her hugging her male friend while walking with other peers before she disappears in the Dominican Republic.
Images taken from surveillance video are the last known photograph of Conanki. Reported by Noticias Sin Tuesday.
It shows a 20-year-old student walking along the road of the RIU Republic Resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic with friends.
Conanki and the unidentified man held arms around each other's backs while walking with other friends.
It was not immediately known if it had been captured yet. However, authorities said the group was partying at a disco around 3am before heading to the beach around 4am.
A ready-made student and Indian national, Conanki traveled with five friends from the pit to the Sunny Caribbean Island, swimming with “young man” until his sudden loss.
She left her in the sand with fellow Caribbean resort guest Joshua Stephen Libe before most of the group called it to the night before she was with six others on the beach on Wednesday.
Libe, 24, traveled from Iowa to the Dominican Republic, gave authorities three different explanations of what happened after the two were alone on the beach, first telling officers that they threw them back to the shore after rough surfing, but asks Conanki if she's okay.
In the second version, he is said to have felt sick in his stomach and left the water.
Finally, he told authorities he saw Conanki walking along the coast before he died in the sand.
Police have not said whether they suspect foul play, but Libe said they are helping them with their investigation.
Dominican authorities speculate that he likely died after leaping into the water in a brown bikini, and some outlets report that they placed their clothes in a chis lounge on the beach.
Her father, Sabu Belayudu Conanki, filed a complaint on Monday, calling for an expansion of his search efforts against his “expanding suspicion” that she could become a victim of the lure as her body was not refined.
The search for Conanki entered its fifth day Tuesday, with a poster of the missing person describing the young woman as 5 feet 3 with dark hair and brown eyes.
