Police recovered body of a woman from the third floor of a residential building in the city’s Oashapur, Basila area on Monday.
The deceased was Ishmat Ara, 28, from Gournadi, Barishal.
Iqbal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Hazaribagh police, said they recovered the body from her rented house around 4:30pm and sent it to Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital for post mortem examination.
OC Iqbal said Ismat had been divorced for two years and worked in a private firm. The childless woman used to live in that house alone. Her housemaid found her dead and informed police when she came for work.
Police were suspecting that some unidentified people strangulated Ismat to death in the early hour of the day. They would be able to make it clear after getting the post mortem report and investigation, he added.