The central city of Daejeon police has explained how a teacher fatally stabbed an eight-year-old girl at an elementary school in South Korea to death.
The female teacher, who is in her 40s, confessed to stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon, police said.
According to BBC, the girl was found with stab wounds on the second floor of a school building at 18:00 local time (09:00 GMT) Monday and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The teacher was found beside her with stab wounds that police said might be self-inflicted, police said.
South Korea’s acting president, Choi Sang-mok, on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the case and urged authorities to “implement necessary measures to ensure such incidents never happen again.
Further details into the incident showed that the teacher had requested a six-month leave of absence citing depression on 9 December, but she returned to school just 20 days later after a doctor assessed her as being fit to work, the Daejeon education office said.
She did not have a relationship with the student, authorities said.
Days before the stabbing, the teacher had displayed violent behaviour, including putting another teacher in a headlock, the school authority said.
The acting president, Choi, said: “It pains me to see such an incident because a school should be our safest space.
“I offer my deep condolences to the victim’s family, who suffered great shock and agony.”