Teacher admits stabbing seven-year-old girl to death at school

A teacher has admitted stabbing a seven-year-old miss to decease astatine a schoolhouse successful South Korea, officials say.

The pistillate teacher, reported to beryllium successful her 40s, has been treated for self-inflicted wounds successful infirmary pursuing the onslaught successful the metropolis of Daejeon connected Monday.

She has not yet been arrested arsenic constabulary analyse the attack.

The miss was a pupil astatine the schoolhouse wherever the teacher worked but constabulary said they person not yet established a idiosyncratic narration betwixt the pair.

The miss was discovered by her grandmother, an authoritative astatine the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education said during a media briefing connected Tuesday.

She was recovered with stab wounds successful the cervix and face, a section occurrence section authoritative told Reuters connected Monday, and aboriginal died successful hospital.

Police said the miss was successful cardiac apprehension erstwhile she was found.

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Acting President Choi Sang-mok offered condolences during a furniture gathering implicit the child's decease and ordered the acquisition ministry and the authorities to thoroughly analyse the incident.

The pistillate had taken a permission of lack portion suffering from slump earlier returning to enactment precocious past year, according to the Yonhap News Agency successful South Korea.