An elementary school teacher in South Korea is accused of stabbing an 8-year-old student to death on Monday, according to reports from local media.

South Korean police on Tuesday were questioning an elementary school teacher who allegedly stabbed a first-grader to death in the city of Daejeon.

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,

A teacher stabbed an eight-year-old student to death at an elementary school in South Korea on Monday, local media reported, citing authorities.

The teacher confessed to the crime after police officers found her and the young girl with stab wounds at the elementary school, local media reported.

The suspect, a female teacher in her 40s, was also found with self-inflicted injuries. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Teacher at Daejeon elementary school has not yet been arrested for death of seven-year-old student yesterday, police say. Police in Daejeon said Tuesday that a teacher at an elementary school admitted to stabbing a seven-year-old girl who was found critically wounded during an afterschool care programme on Monday.

A seven-year-old girl was found in cardiac arrest and later died after being stabbed at a South Korean elementary school, an official at the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education said during a media briefing on Tuesday (February 11).