Teacher admits stabbing seven-year-old girl to death at school in South Korea
A teacher has admitted stabbing a seven-year-old girl to death at a school in South Korea, officials say.
The female teacher, reported to be in her 40s, has been treated for self-inflicted wounds in hospital following the attack in the city of Daejeon on Monday.
She has not yet been arrested as police investigate the attack.
The girl was a student at the school where the teacher worked but police said they have not yet established a personal relationship between the pair.
The girl was discovered by her grandmother, an official at the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education said during a media briefing on Tuesday.
She was found with stab wounds in the neck and face, a local fire department official told Reuters on Monday, and later died in hospital.
Police said the girl was in cardiac arrest when she was found.
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Acting President Choi Sang-mok offered condolences during a cabinet meeting over the child’s death and ordered the education ministry and the authorities to thoroughly investigate the incident.
The woman had taken a leave of absence while suffering from depression before returning to work late last year, according to the Yonhap News Agency in South Korea.