Police recovered the body of a 15-year-old girl from her employer's flat at DOHS Baridhara in the capital yesterday.

Jannat of Dinajpur was the house help of Sayed Mukhlesur Rahman, a former army major, said Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Cantonment police Station.

Mukhlesur said they left the girl alone in the flat in the morning. When they returned around 3.45pm, the door was locked from inside.

After reportedly failing to open the door, he informed the DOHS authorities, who sent locksmiths, said OC Mahbubur.

Entering the flat, they found Jannat hanging from a ceiling fan.

The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for    autopsy.