The body of a youth was recovered on Saturday afternoon from a haor at Companiganj upazila in Sylhet, one day after he went missing.
The victim is Ataur Rahman, 35, son of late Bashir Miah of Putamara Pashchimpara village at Isakalas union under the Companiganj upazila, police said.
Locals said that Ataur went out of his home on Friday evening to go to Putamara Bazar, a marketplace in the locality, and did not return home that night.
On Saturday morning, local people saw the body of Ataur in the Bilerkhar Haor area and his family members identified the body at noon, his neighbours said.
Companiganj police station officer-in-charge Ujair Al Mahmud confirmed the incident of recovering the victim鈥檚 body.
鈥楾here was a mark of a deep wound in the head of the victim,鈥� he said, adding that the body was sent to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in the afternoon for postmortem examination.
The police officer said that they were investigating to find out the reason and perpetrators behind the murder.