Police recovered a beheaded body of an unidentified youth from a maize field in Hatibandha upazila of northern district of Lalmonirhat on Friday.
Faridul Islam, member of Fakirpara union parishad, said a local woman spotted the body lying in the maize field when she went there in the afternoon.
Hatibandha police station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) Saiful Islam confirmed the matter saying that after being informed they recovered the body from the spot.
The body was sent to Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, he said, adding that the identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.