Police recovered the body of a teenage hotel worker boy from a potato field at Chanpara in Panchbibi upazila on Wednesday morning.
The deceased was identified as Jihad Hossain, 16, Maznu Miah. He has been working at a hotel in Chanpara Bazar for the last one and a half year.
Raisul Islam, officer-in-charge of Panchbibi Police Station, said that Jihad came to his house from the hotel on a three-day leave.
He went out from the house on Tuesday evening for going back to the hotel but he never made it there.
Local farmers later spotted his body in the field and informed police.
Police later recovered the body and sent it to Joypurhat Modern District Hospital for an autopsy, said the OC adding that the boy was strangulated to death.