Indian-American student on vacation goes missing in Caribbean country

Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching for a 20-year-old university student from the US 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, according to Civil Defense officials, who said the search for her continued on Sunday, Konanki is a student at the University of Pittsburgh.

Konanki is said to have vanished while walking on the beach wearing a bikini, local officials said.

A missing person's poster describes her as 5 feet 3 inches, with black hair and brown eyes. At the time she went missing, she was wearing a brown bikini, big round earrings, a metal designer anklet on her right leg, yellow and steel bracelets on her right hand and a multicolored beaded bracelet on her left hand, the poster detailed.

With AP inputs