An elementary school teacher has admitted to fatally stabbing an eight-year-old girl in the central city of Daejeon in South Korea. The teacher, who is in her 40s, is currently in hospital for self-inflicted wounds on her neck and arms and has not been arrested as investigations continue,

The incident has shocked the nation and prompted South Korea’s acting president to instruct reviews of school safety standards.

An eight-year-old student died Monday after she and a teacher were found stabbed at an elementary school in the central city of Daejeon, authorities said.

A teacher in South Korea admits to fatally stabbing a 7-year-old student: policeChoi Jae-mo/ Director General/ Education Bureau /Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education"The student's grandmother found the student and the teacher lying down at the equipment room of the audiovisual room.

The teacher, a woman in her 40s, confessed to the crime after police officers found her and the young girl with stab wounds at the elementary school in South Korea.

A child was found in cardiac arrest and later died after being stabbed in a South Korean elementary school on Monday alongside a woman in her 40s who also had stab wounds, local media reported.

Mourning of elementary school pupil killed by teacher A woman lays a bouquet of chrysanthemums at an elementary school in the central city of Daejeon on Feb. 11, 2025, to mourn the death of an 8-year-old student who was stabbed to death by her teacher the previous day.