Details of the environment Konankin disappearance They began to show up how the international investigation continues. Here’s what we know so much about her case.
Konanki is seen on the video walk to the beach
Konanki, 20, from Chantilly, Virginia, and Washington, DC, suburbs and attends college in Pittsburgh. It has a permanent residence in the United States, as well as citizenship in India. She arrived in the Dominican Republic in Spring Vacation 3. March and there was a vacation with a group of friends, five other women, towards researchers and her parents.
She miss From Thursday, March 6th, after seeing her surveillance video, three of her friends and two more American men walk toward the beach area Outside the Riu República Hotel. The video was from around 16:15, and researchers in the Dominican Republic said.
Failures The power failures in the hotel may have encouraged guests to move outdoors around that time, said the hotel in the statement. Earlier video surveillance video showed Konanki and one of her friends hugging in the hotel bar.
Defensa Civil Dominican
One of the men in a group who walk to the beach was identified as 22-year-old Joshua Riibe, the American college student. In the recording, Konanki and Riibe saw how to walk with their hands with each other.
The video shows the other four people later returning to the hotel, but Konanki and Riibe remained behind the beach, said the police source.
Riibe told the police that he and Konanki entered the ocean with a big wave and both fought against the rough sea. He said he believed that Konanki came out of the water, but he was not sure, according to a person with direct knowledge of Riya’s statements by US investigators.
It is assumed that the last person who saw Konani alive.
The Konankin disappearance has so far been investigated as a case of missing persons, not criminal investigations.
The General Prosecutor of the Dominican Republic said that investigators investigate whether Konanki drowned, but not deciding the possibility of misdemeanor play.
Riibe faces the examination, says he collaborates
Riibe is in Punta Cani in questioning, because the investigation is in progress.
The authorities seized the passport, his lawyer Guzmán Ariza said on Saturday, noting that his client was limited to a hotel with a police escort anywhere. Yeni Berenice Reynoso, the General Lawyer of the Dominican lawyer, was directly questioned by Riibe, said Ariza News of CBS.
Riibe and his parents, Tina and Albert Riibe, extended “deep sadness and solidarity” with a final family in a statement published through his lawyer.
“First of all, we want to contribute to search efforts and understand anxiety and uncertainty that pass and share hope that Sudiksha will be indicated as soon as possible,” said in the statement. “Joshua Riibibe was deeply conceived by her disappearance and fully cooperated in search of and clarifying the facts from the very beginning.”
Originally from Iowa, Riiba is a college older at the State University of St. Cloud in Minnesota, where he deals with a degree in geodetic surveys.
His family in their statement described as “a beloved son, a brother and a friend, known for his kind nature, sense of humor and commitment to his community.”
They also shared concerns about “irregular conditions” of his custody in Punta Cana, “he was” subjected to an official translator or legal defenders “. The family has maintained legal actions by ensuring his safety and the protection of his rights”, in accordance with the statement.
Intensing the search effort
More than 300 police and other officials, with the support of the FBI, search the air, the sea and the Earth to find it, said Dominican President Luis Abineer. The National Police Dominican Republic said that they made a new “high-level commission” to monitor the case, and Interpol has Issued a global police warning At the request of the investigator.
“We’re worried,” Aninader said on the news 10. March. “All Government agencies are looking for … because the latest data were from one of them, from the last person who was with a young woman, what he says about the reports, while on the beach, crashed into them.”
The Dominican Republic National Police said in Statement 11. Martha that they “interview the targeted individuals who were in the vicinity of the victim at the time of her disappearance.” Investigators said individuals involved “hotel employees in which Konanko and her comrades were inhabited, with the aim of gathering information to confirm their movements, interactions and all relevant investigation details.”
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