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.

International authorities are searching for a missing University of Pittsburgh student who disappeared while on a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic last week. Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was with a group of students visiting Punta Cana when she went missing,