Police yesterday recovered the decomposed body of woman aged around thirty from North Goran area in the capital.

The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately, Moshiure Rahman, officer in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station said.

On information of locals, a police team recovered the body from a manhole and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for autopsy, the OC said.

The body must have been dumped there three or four days ago, OC Moshiure added.