Dhaka, April 25 -- A customs official who went missing while returning home to Cumilla from a training session in Chattogram has been found dead by the side of the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway.

Police recovered the body of Bullet Bairagi, 35, near a hotel in the Kotbari area at around 7:45am on Saturday, said Md Abdul Momin, chief of Mainamati Highway Police.

Bullet, an assistant revenue officer in the Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, was a resident of Panpatti in Cumilla City.

Family members said Bullet had travelled to Chattogram on Apr 11 for the 44th basic training course.

After completing the programme, he boarded a Dhaka-bound bus from Alankar Mor around 11pm on Friday to return home.

He was expected to get off at the Cumilla...