Police recovered the bodies of an elderly man and a woman from the Buriganga River and an under-construction building here on Wednesday.

The deceased could not be identified yet.

Officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj Police Station Shah Zaman said they recovered the body of the woman, aged around 30, from the 3rd floor of the under-construction building in Chunkutia Aminpara around 2pm.

The woman might have been killed after rape, he said.

The body of the 75-year-old man was retrieved from the Buriganga River at Postagola in the morning, the OC said.