A businessman was murdered in Mohajanpur village in Mujibnagar upazila on Saturday night.
The deceased was identified as Subol Kuri, 62, a resident of the area.
Mohajanpur UP member Jahurul Islam Swapan said miscreants strangled Subol and left his body under two sacks of fertiliser and a gas cylinder at his shop on the ground floor of a two-storey building at night.
His wife first noticed the body and informed police, he added.
The motive of the killers could not be known yet.
Abdul Hashem, officer-in-charge of Mujibnagar Police Station, said they recovered the body and sent it to Meherpur General Hosptial.
Primarily they suspect that miscreants killed him for money, OC added.