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.

A University of Pittsburgh student went missing after traveling to the Dominican Republic.The student was identified as Sudiksha Konanki, 20, from Virginia. Dominican Republic authorities say Konanki went missing while "walking on a beach.

The search for Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who vanished in the Dominican Republic last week, has taken a tragic turn. Authorities now suspect she was swept away by a powerful wave while swimming off a Punta Cana beach in the early hours of Thursday morning,