Chattogram police have recovered the body of a woman with her throat slit and her husband hanging from the ceiling in a house.

They were found on Tuesday night at a residence near Diamond Cement Factory in Karnaphuli Upazila.

The couple had come to stay at the house, rented by the husband’s aunt, about two weeks ago.

The woman was identified as Reshma Akter, 18, whose body has been taken to the morgue for post-mortem examination.

Her husband Md Ibrahim, 29, has been admitted to Chattogram Medical College Hospital under police supervision.