Dhaka, Oct. 5 -- Police have recovered the hanging body of an unidentified woman from a toilet at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

The bloodied body was inside Toilet No. 4 between wards 110 and 111 on the ground floor of the hospital's old building around 10am on Monday.

A blood-stained knife had been found earlier in the morning near the second entrance to a conference room at the hospital's administrative block, about a five-minute walk from where the body was discovered.

Police have yet to establish whether the knife is connected to the woman's death.

Cleaner Mahmud Sheikh said he went to clean the toilets in the old building in the morning and, as usual, knocked on the doors and asked anyone inside to leave.

He received no respon...