Bagerhat, March 22 -- Police recovered the throat-slit body of a woman from a house at Dakkhin Sarui in the municipality area here on Thursday night.

The victim was identified as Hosne Ara Begum, 60, wife of Abdur Rahim.

Quoting relatives of the deceased, police said Abdur Rahim, a retired engineer of Public Works Department, along with his wife had long been living in the house as their three sons live in different places for their job purposes.

On March 18, Abdur Rahim went to Saudi Arabia for performing Umrah, leaving Hosne Ara alone at the house.

On Thursday, the elder son of the deceased made repeated phone calls to his mother. As his calls went unanswered, he requested his aunt, Jharna, to go to their house.

When Jharna went to...