The parents of a missing student in the Dominican Republic believe that they were sank

Sudiksha Konnki, a 20 -year -old university student who lost during a spring trip to Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic, said they took over with the possibility of sinking it, and asked for privacy to mourning it, according to officials and a statement of the media on Tuesday.

Their statement came for more than a week after that Disappearance on March 6 She caught the headlines around the world, and led to a repeated interrogation of the last person seen with it.

“The Sodiksha family has believed that it had been sank,” said Ludon Provincial Office in Virginia In a statement Tuesday. The office said: “While the final decision to take such an advertisement settles with the authorities in the Dominican Republic, we will support the Konanki family in every possible way,” while continuing to review the evidence.

The person with whom the last time was seen, an American man who is not called the New York Times because he was not accused of a crime, attended, A hearing of the court In the Dominican city of Higuli on Tuesday. He said during the session that he wanted to go home and see his family, EL Caribe, a local newspaper. He said he was detained in the country for 10 days.

A judge said at the session that he could move freely in the Dominican Republic and without the supervision of the police to move forward.

In a video of tears in the fox 5, the capital A subscriber on the Internet, Mrs. Konanki’s father said they accepted, “Our daughter had been drowned” and that this conclusion was “very difficult for us to treat it.” Her mother cried as he read the statement. They also asked for “time and privacy to focus on healing” and their families, NBC4 Washington mentioned.

Police said that Mrs. Conniki, a student of the University of Pittsburgh from Ludon Province, remained at the Rio Ribubaika Hotel in Punta Cana with five friends after they arrived in the Dominican Republic on March 3. I was seen in the early morning hours of March 6 on a beach in Punta, they were with the American man, who was “under investigation”, ” According to the authorities In the Dominican Republic.

When the US embassy in the Dominican Republic alerted the National Police that disappeared Mrs. Conniki, officials began a comprehensive search on the beach and the surrounding area, using drones, helicopters, zoars, police dogs and other resources, the authorities said.

Police said more than 300 agents were looking for Mrs. Conniki. The FBI was helping the investigation, according to the Sharif Office of Ludon Province.

Hogla Enecia Pérez The reports of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Amanda Holbush Reports also contributed.