A 56-year-old Chinese man of Korean ethnicity was put under emergency arrest on charges of murdering a woman and brutally damaging her body before abandoning it, police said Friday.

The suspect, only identified by his surname Park, is accused of killing his 48-year-old Korean-Chinese girlfriend, surnamed Kim, and chopping her body into pieces, said the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency investigating the case.

The agency said it plans to seek a warrant for Park, who refuses to comply with the investigation, within the day for further questioning.

The investigation came after the upper half of a woman’s torso was found in a black garbage bag on a hiking trail in Suwon, just south of Seoul, last week.

The body was missing its head, arms, legs and internal organs, except for both kidneys.

Police first suspected the woman could have been the victim of organ traffickers but soon ruled out the possibility since there were no surgical signs. (Yonhap)