The decapitated body of a university student have been recovered by police from his house in the capital’s Adabor.

Deceased Shihabur Rahman Shihab, 27, was a third-year student of Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB), studying BBA there.

The body was recovered from his room at an apartment on the second floor of a house at Road 3 of the area Saturday afternoon, police said.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital police camp Sub-Inspector Bachchu Mia quoted Shihab’s relatives and said the rest of the family went to Madaripur to visit his ailing maternal grandmother some days ago.

They returned Friday night and found his room locked. They believed he was in a friend’s house.

The members of the family called police when they smelt a bad odor coming out from the room.

Police from Adabor station later broke the door and the beheaded body was found inside. It was sent to DMCH for post-mortem examination.