Police on Tuesday recovered the body of a 45-year-old unidentified man from a pond adjacent to Beltali Beribandh in Matlab North upazila of Chandpur.
Locals said the body was floating in the pond. Passersby saw it and informed the police.
The body of the man was recovered this afternoon and was sent to Chandpur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Matlab North Police Station Md Mohiuddin.
There were no injury marks on the body, said the OC.
The cause of death will be confirmed after receiving the post-mortem report, he said. Efforts are on to identify the deceased. An unnatural death case has been filed with the police station in this regard.