A teacher has fatally stabbed an eight-year-old girl at an elementary school in South Korea, in an incident that has shocked the nation. The female teacher, who is in her 40s, confessed to stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon,

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.

A teacher stabbed an eight-year-old student to death at an elementary school in South Korea on Jan. 10, local media reported, citing authorities.

The female teacher, who is being treated for self-inflicted wounds in hospital, has not yet been arrested, police said.

A child was found in cardiac arrest and later died after being stabbed in a South Korean elementary school on Monday (Feb 10) alongside a woman in her 40s who also had stab wounds, local media reported.

The teacher has been treated for self-inflicted wounds in hospital following the attack in the city of Daejeon, a police official said.