Police recovered the beheaded body of a tea seller from a water body at Bakchara in Satkhira district on Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Yeasin Ali, 31 of Sultanpur village in Satkhira district.
Lokman Hossain, sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station, said local people spotted the body near Satkhira bypass road and informed police who late recovered it around 8:30 am.
A pair of shoes was also found on the spot.
Police suspected that miscreants might have killed him in another place and dumped the body in the water body.
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“Police started its investigation to unearth the motive behind the killing,” said superintendent of Satkhira Police Kazi Maniruzzaman.