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,

Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Pittsburgh, was last seen on a beach in Punta Cana on March 6.

The family of missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki still fears she could have been abducted in the Dominican Republic. Local authorities have suggested the 20-year-old pre-med student likely drowned after jumping in the ocean early Thursday while on spring break with friends at the Riu Republic Resort in Punta Cana.