Sudiksha Konanki, a pre-med student, was on spring break with her friends in the popular Dominican Republic resort town of Punta Cana when she mysteriously vanished.

The “person of interest” in the disappearance of missing Pitt student Sudiksha Konanki claims he saved them both from drowning before she vanished.

Joshua Steven Riibe, 24, has been identified as the man seen hugging and walking hand-in-hand with the 20-year-old student just hours before she vanished in the Dominican Republic.