Police recovered the body of a female garment worker at Shantinagar under Baizid police station in Chittagong city Tuesday morning.
The deceased was identified as Monowara Khatun, 18, daughter of rickshaw-puller Abdul Hamid of Ziri Hariya in Laksam of Comilla.
Monowara was working at Green Fair Garments at Aturar Dipo in the city.
Informed by local people, police recovered the body from a drain of the area and sent it to Chittagong Medical College Hospital morgue for post-mortem examination.
Her body bore several marks of injury and the neck was wrapped in a scurf, said Shaherul Islam, officer-in-charge of Baizid police station.
Miscreants might have strangled her sometime on Monday night and dumped the body in the drain, also said the OC.
Quoting the father of the victim, the police official said Monowara did not return home from workplace last night.
A case was filed with Bayezid police.