Dhaka, June 29 -- Retired schoolteacher Abdur Rashid had spent his life raising his two daughters and helping them become doctors. In old age, he had hoped to look back on their success with pride and relief.

That hope has now been shattered by the unexplained death of his elder daughter, 32-year-old Farah Ferdouse.

Dr Farah's decomposed body was recovered from a flat in the residential block of Aziz Super Market in Dhaka's Shahbagh on Friday.

A doctor who entered government service through the 39th BCS, Farah was undergoing higher training in cardiovascular medicine at Bangladesh Medical University, or BMU. Her ancestral home is in Fultola Upazila of Khulna.

Her parents have been left devastated by the death. Her younger sister, Nujh...