Officer in charge of the Patenga police station Md Abdul Kashem told the Dhaka Tribune that Nur Sohafa, 45, was found wandering “aimlessly” around the airport.
“Immigration police took her aside for questioning and was told her passport had gone missing along with her husband,” Kashem told the paper.
According to the report, Sohafa was scheduled to return to Malaysia on June 30 after spending a month visiting the village of her husband, Md Lavlu, in Faridpur.
However, Lavlu disappeared from the airport together with Sohafa’s passport and other documents which he had been carrying.
Kashem said Sohafa did not know the address of Lavlu’s home in the village. He added that police were trying to locate Lavlu, and that Sohafa had been sent to court to seek directives regarding safe custody.
The couple have been married for five years.