A Chinese national was found dead in a house at BNS Sheikh Hasina Naval Base in Cox’s Bazar district on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Chen Yukuan, an employee of the under-constructed submarine naval base in Magnama of Pekua upazila.
People at the naval base spotted his body and informed cops in the morning, said officer-in-charge of Pekua Police Station.
Police recovered the body and sent it to the Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy.
“The body bore no injury marks. We are awaiting the post-mortem report to ascertain the exact cause of his death,” said sub-inspector of Pekua Police Station, Nadir Shah.