Dhaka, Oct. 20 -- Police have recovered the hanging body of a Pakistani national, identified as 26-year-old Mohammad Shahbaz, from a house in Dhaka's Khilgaon.

He was found at a rented flat on the ground-floor of a building on Road No. 9/5 in Block F of South Banasree around 8:30am on Tuesday.

Shahbaz was later taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

Khilgaon Police Station Sub-Inspector Zubayer said investigators initially suspect that Shahbaz died by suicide following a family dispute.

According to Zubayer, the building's caretaker spotted him in the morning and alerted police.

Police then went to the scene, broke open the door and found Shahbaz hanging from a ceiling fan with a bedsheet tied aroun...