Police recovered the body of a sexagenarian woman, who was missing for a week, from a forest in Gazipur's Sreepur upazila on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Monwara Begum, 60, wife of Abdur Rob of Maytapara village in Gazipur's Sadar upazila.
After being informed by locals this afternoon, a team of police recovered the body from Gazari forest at Dakshin Barotopa village under Mauna union, said Forkan Mia, sub-inspector of Sreepur Police Station.
Later, the body was sent to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital in Gazipur for autopsy, the police official said.
Monwara's son Jasimuddin told that she went missing after leaving the house in the morning of March 13. After being failed to locate her searching various places, the family members filed a general diary with Joydebpur Police Station on March 15.
"I identified my mother seeing her dress, but I don't know how my mother died," he said.