My daughter is a very nice girl. She’s ambitious. She wanted to pursue a career in medicine," her father said.

Sudiksha Konanki was last seen on Thursday. She was in the Dominican Republic on spring break with her friends. Her father Subbarayudu Konanki has asked the authorities to look into a possible criminal angle behind her disappearance,

Authorities in the Dominican Republic are continuing their search for Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old woman from Chantilly, Virginia and a student at the University of Pittsburgh, who was reported missing on Thursday,