(File Photo: Source for Photo: Military personnel search for Sudiksha Konanki, a university student from the U.S. who disappeared on a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Monday, March. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Francesco Spotorno)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) A statement was released on Friday by the parents of the last person to allegedly see Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student who has been missing in the Dominican Republic. The parents of twenty-two-year-old Joshua Riibe are hoping that Konanki gets found and that their son has cooperated completely with clarifying facts as well as the search for her. Konanki was in Punta Cana with a group of several people before she went missing.