Police have recovered the bodies of three persons from Manda upazila of Naogaon in the last 24 hours.

The deceased have been identified as Abdus Samad, 58, of Dakshin Mainam village of Manda upazila, Rabindranath Pike, 66, of Binoy Bazar area of Prasadpur union and Sabbir Hossain, 26, of Chakrajapur village.

Sabina Khatun, daughter of the deceased Abdus Samad, said that after the death of her mother, her father married a woman named Mausumi Khatun. Due to feud, his father divorced her stepmother a few months ago.

On Thursday evening, his father left the house with her sister Samia. Since then, he had been missing. At one stage of the search, his father's body was found hanging from a mango tree in Rubel Hossain's garden near the house at around 3 am, she added.

On the other hand, Rabindranath Pike's son Ratan Pike said that his father Rabindranath had been ill for a long time. At night he used to sleep on the veranda of the house. He has not been seen since 9pm on Thursday. Later, his body was found hanging from a tree in a mango orchard near the house, he added.

Surma Begum, wife of the deceased Sabbir Rahman, said that her husband closed the bedroom in the house on Friday noon. As he did not respond for a long time, the door of the house was broken and his body was found hanging from the fan.

Shahinur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Manda police station said three bodies were recovered within 24 hours in separate incidents and sent to Naogaon Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Three unnatural death cases have been filed at Manda police station in the incident, the OC added.

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