Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from Faujdarhat area in Sitakunda upazila on Monday.
Locals spotted the body at a banana orchard adjacent to the Railway Colony located on the north side of Faujdarhat KM High School in the morning and informed police.
SM Zulfiqar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda police station said the age of the deceased was around 21 years and her neck was tied with a scarf.
A team from Chattogram CID collected evidence from the spot and sent the body to Chattogram Medical College Hospital for autopsy, he added.