Seul, South Korea-a teacher of a elementary school in South Korea has admitted to stabbing a 7-year-old girl who was found in cardiac arrest and then died at the hospital, a police officer said on Tuesday.
The teacher, who is being treated by self -inflicted injuries in the hospital, has not yet been arrested, said the official, since the police were still investigating the stabbing on Monday.
The interim president, Choi Sang-Mok, offered deep condolences during a cabinet meeting on the death of the child and ordered the Ministry of Education and the authorities to thoroughly investigate the incident in the school of the city of Daejeon.
The girl was a student at school where the teacher worked, although the police had not established a personal relationship between the two so far, according to the police officer.
The girl was discovered by her grandmother, said a Daejeon Metropolitan Education Office on Tuesday during a media conference on Tuesday. It was found with a knife wounds on the neck and face, said an official of the local fire department to Reuters on Monday, and then died in the hospital.
The teacher had taken an absence permit for medical reasons before returning prematurely to work at the end of last year, said the official of the Information Education Office.
