The principal of a college in Dhaka was found dead at a hotel in Sylhet city yesterday.

Prof Ferdous Wahid, 54, principal of Tibbia Habibia Unani College, was also secretary general of Bangladesh Unani Samity, said police.

He went to Sylhet on an official visit to another college under the Samity.

Ferdous checked in on Friday night, Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mosarraf Hossain quoted the hotel authorities as saying.

The hotel employees informed police after the professor had not responded to their calls in the morning yesterday, said the OC.

Ferdous was declared dead at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.

The doctors at the hospital initially suspected that he died from a cardiac arrest, said the OC.