A Minnesota college student who was the last person to see missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, 20, is insisting that he was a “lifesaver” who pulled her from the waters of the Caribbean but refused to answer several questions about her disappearance eight days ago.

“I was a lifesaver. I grabbed her and pulled her out,” Joshua Riibe, 22, a senior at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, told the Dominican Republic’s Public Ministry, according to a transcript obtained by Dominican Republic’s Noticias Sin, reports The New York Post Friday.

Riibe has not been named as a suspect but as a person of interest in Konanki’s disappearance. 

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