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Police have focused their search at a landfill site as they continue to search for body parts of a Hong Kong model whose dismembered legs were found inside a fridge.
Abby Choi, 28, went missing last Tuesday and her dismembered legs were found three days later in a fridge in a makeshift butcher's workshop but her head, torso and hands were missing.
Six days later, police found Ms Choi’s missing head and some ribs in a large soup pot.
And today, more than 100 officers wearing protective suits were seen using excavators and shovels to search for her hands and torso which remain missing.
The search for her remaining body parts has been taking place at the North East New Territories Landfill in Ta Kwu Ling, Hong Kong, close to the border with mainland China.
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Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi (xxabbyc/Instagram)
Hong Kong police continue to piece together details (xxabbyc/Instagram)On Monday, Hong Kong police charged 28-year-old Alex Kwong with the gruesome murder of his ex-wife, along with his father Kwong Kau, 65, and older brother Anthony Kwong, 31.
Superintendent Alan Chung told reporters: "The suspects threw away several bags of important evidence in the morning of 22 February.
"There may be some human body parts or they could be the clothes and phone of the victim - or even the weapons."
Police said the influencer was embroiled in a financial dispute involving tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars with her ex-husband and his family and "some people" were unhappy with the way she handled her finances.
Journalists try to film a police van believed to be carrying relatives of murdered model Abby Choi (AP)Police also found the model’s identity card and credit cards in the ground floor flat, where her legs were found as well as “tools that are used to dismember human bodies", Superintendent Alan Chung said, "including meat grinders, chainsaws, long raincoats, gloves, and masks."
Her friend, Bernard Cheng, said the model was mum to four children aged between three and 10.
Mr Kwong is the Father to the two eldest children, who are in the care of their maternal grandmother.
Mr Cheng said: "I haven't imagined a person who's so good, so full of love, so innocent, a person who doesn't do anything bad will be killed like this.
"My heart is still heavy. I can't sleep well."
Ms Choi was very successful in her field and appeared in Monaco fashion magazine earlier in February.
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She had also appeared in publications including Elle, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and was a regular at Paris Fashion Week.
Her Instagram page, with more than 100,000 followers, has been filled with messages of condolence.