Police recovered the body of an unidentified young girl from a shop along Laboni point of Cox’s Bazar sea beach on early Wednesday.

Local people first spotted the girl, aged about 22-23, lying on the floor of a fast food shop in an unconscious state around 3:30am and informed police.

The identity of the deceased has not yet been confirmed, said Mohamamd Sami Uddin, officer-in-charge of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Model Police Station.

The body was sent to the Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations to ascertain the exact cause of death, said the OC.