The Balikuda police on Saturday recovered the body of a bus helper from the rooftop of a Cuttack-Machhagaon route bus parked at Machhagaon in Jagatsinghpur district.
The deceased was identified as Nabaghan Mohanty of Darada village in Borikena gram panchayat under Balikuda block.
The police sent the body to the Jagatsinghpur District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for postmortem after registering an unnatural death case.
According to information, Nabaghan had been working in the private bus for a few years now. After the bus reached Machhagaon on Fridaynight, Nabaghan went to the bus rooftop along with the driver for sleep after dinner. But, surprisingly, he was found dead on Saturdaymorning.
Conductor Budhadev Swain informed police about the incident.