Jhenidah: The body of an elderly woman who drowned while taking bath in a canal in the municipality area was recovered on Sunday morning.

The deceased is Anwara Khatun, in her late seventies, wife of Emtaj Ali of Bhotiarghat village in the upazila.

Emdadul Haque Sheikh, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said Anwara drowned in the canal on Saturday afternoon.

A team of Fire Service and Civil Defence recovered the body from the canal around 6:00am, the OC added.