Staff Reporter :
A body of a woman was recovered from Al Shaheen Hotel in the city’s Fakirapool area on Sunday night.
Police also rescued her one-month old daughter from the hotel room at night, said Omar Faruq, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Motijheel Police Station.
The identity of the deceased could not be known till filing of the report around 9:00pm on Monday, the Police official said.
“The baby was admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital around 12:10 pm,” the OC said.
Earlier, a man along with the woman and the baby came to Al Shaheen Hotel around 4:00 am on Sunday for staying a night there, said the police official quoting the hotel authorities.
“But around 11:30 pm on the fateful night, an attendant of the hotel found the Room No.16 on the fourth floor of the hotel locked from outside and a baby was crying inside. Immediately they called the Motijheel police,” he said.
A police team broke open the door and found the body of the woman, said police adding that she might have been strangulated sometime after they had come to the hotel room.
Police also detained the hotel owner Shahin Ullah and he was sent to the jail following a court order, the OC said.
