Police recovered a Chinese citizen's body from  Bhairab River in Khulna region of Bangladesh on Saturday, media reports said.

The national had earlier gone missing.

The deceased was King Jong alias Workboz, an electrical engineer for the under-construction Rupsa 800MW power plant project in Khulna, reports Dhaka Tribune.

He has been working in the Khalishpur Power Plant House for the past six months.

He did not return after going out to cut his hair on Thursday.

Later a general diary was filed in this connection, police told Dhaka Tribune.

Police said locals spotted his body in the ghat No 7 area of the Bhairab River.

River Police recovered the body and sent it to Khulna Medical College Hospital.

Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) Commissioner Mozammel Haque told Dhaka Tribune that the police are investigating the Chinese man’s “mysterious death.”