Seoul [South Korea], February 12: 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, police said.
The girl was found with stab wounds on the second floor of a school building at 18:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Monday and was pronounced dead at hospital. The teacher was found beside her with stab wounds that police said may have been self-inflicted.
South Korea's acting president Choi Sang-mok ordered an investigation into the case on Tuesday and urged authorities to "implement necessary measures to ensure such incidents never happen again".
Source: Fijian Broadcasting Cooperation
