Sylhet: Police recovered two bodies from Piyain River in Gowainghat upazila on Tuesday morning.

The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately, said Abdul Jalil, officer-in-charge of Gowainghat Police.

In the morning, locals found the bodies in the river as floating condition and informed police.

Being informed, a police team recovered the bodies from the river and sent those to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

It is primarily assumed that the bodies might be of Indian citizens as a tourist boat was capsized in in the river’s Indian part on May 27.

Since then some tourists remained missing, the OC added.