Teacher stabs 8-year-old student to death at elementary school in South Korea

A instructor stabbed an eight-year-old scholar to demise at an elementary college in South Korea on Monday, native media reported, citing authorities.

The instructor, a girl in her 40s, confessed to the crime after cops discovered her and the younger woman with stab wounds on the elementary college within the central metropolis of Daejeon on Monday night, the Yonhap information company reported.

The woman was delivered to hospital “in an unconscious state, however she later died”, the report learn. She had stab wounds within the neck and face, a neighborhood fireplace division official told the Reuters news agency.

The instructor had stab wounds on her neck and arm, which officers decided could have been self-inflicted, in accordance with the information company.

“Police discovered that the instructor had taken a depart of absence as a result of melancholy and returned to the college late final yr,” the report mentioned.

The coed was on the college for after-class baby care earlier than she was as a result of attend a personal artwork class.

The instructor and the woman have been discovered by police at round 6:00 pm after the kid’s dad and mom reported her lacking from the artwork class.

The instructor underwent surgical procedure for her wounds, and police mentioned they might resume questioning her later, Yonhap reported.

South Korea is usually a really secure nation, with a homicide fee of 1.3 per 100,000 folks in 2021, in accordance with official statistics — beneath the worldwide common of six murder deaths per 100,000 folks.

The nation witnessed a string of high-profile violent crime incidents in 2023, nevertheless, together with a number of stabbings.

In July of that yr, an individual was killed and three wounded in one other stabbing at a subway station in Seoul. The suspect later advised police he lived a depressing life and “needed to make others depressing too,” the BBC reported.

In August, a highschool instructor was reportedly attacked with a knife, additionally in Daejeon, round 87 miles south of the capital Seoul. In the identical week, an attacker drove a automotive right into a pedestrian walkway within the metropolis of Bundang, close to Seoul, earlier than attacking folks at a division retailer with a knife. Police mentioned the suspect had googled information in regards to the subway assault earlier than his personal rampage.

Final yr, South Korea’s liberal opposition chief, Lee Jae-myung, was stabbed in the neck by an unidentified knife-wielding man throughout a go to to the southeastern metropolis of Busan.