Woman tourist killed at Cox's Bazar cottage
Manager arrested
Police recovered the body of a 22-year-old woman tourist from a room of Dhaka Cottage at Kolatoli on Cox's Bazar sea beach Friday night.
Police suspected that the woman was strangled in the room. They arrested Manager of Dhaka Cottage Amir Hossain, 42, for his alleged involvement in the incident.
Police and Dhaka Cottage authorities said a youth named Shamim Ahmed booked room No 102 of the cottage and boarded the room along with a woman.
In the register of the cottage, their names were recorded as Shamim Ahmed, 27, son of Abdul Latif and his wife Rokeya Begum, 22, of Narayanganj, Dhaka, they said.
Dhaka Cottage Manager Amir Hossain told police that Shamim and Rokeya booked the room for two nights. They went out of the room at around 9:00am and returned to the cottage in the afternoon.
When the room was found locked from outside in the evening, staff peeped through the window and found the body of the woman lying inside the room. Later, police were informed, the manger said.
Cox's Bazar Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Shahjahan said police recovered the body of the woman by breaking open the door of the room and sent it to Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital for autopsy.
He said law enforcers are looking for the youth who identified himself as the woman's husband. Police also found a cellphone in the room and seized it.
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