After almost a week, authorities continue the search for Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student who went missing on a spring break trip in the Dominican Republic last week. The FBI announced on Monday that they would be joining the investigation and Konanki’s local sheriff’s department has sent detectives to the Dominican Republic,

The parents of the man who was last seen with Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic released a statement on Friday.