Police recovered the body of a housewife from Masiara village of Tala upazila on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Lavli Khatun, 32, wife of Abdul Hamid of the village.
Local people spotted the body of Lavli inside a garden in Ghora Bottala area of the village around 11:00am and informed police.
Later, law enforces recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for an autopsy.
Officer-in-charge of Tala Police Station Motiur Rahman said miscreants chopped Lavli to death.
The reason behind the killing could not be known yet.
