Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- Police in Gopalganj recovered the body of a 3-year-old girl 20 days after she went missing from Sadar Upazila, arresting her mother, who allegedly killed the child at the prompting of her lover.

On Saturday afternoon, officers broke the lock of a room in Gobra Madhya Para and found the child's body inside a trunk, said Sakhawat Hossen Sentu, additional superintendent of Gopalganj Police.

The victim M Faria was the daughter of expatriate Rubel Sheikh from the area. The arrested mother is Setu Begum.

According to a preliminary inquiry, the mother confessed, leading police to recover the child's body from the locked room.

After completing the initial medical-legal formalities, the body was sent to Gopalganj General Hospi...