The teacher fatally stabs eight years in Daejeon

A teacher fatally stabbed an eight -year -old girl in a primary school in South Korea, in an incident that has shocked the nation.

The teacher, who is 40 years old, confessed stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon, police said.

The girl was found with a white weapon wounds on the second floor of a school building at 18:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Monday and was declared dead in the hospital. The teacher was found by her side with a white weapon wounds that the police said she could be self -inflicted.

The interim president of South Korea, Choi Sang-Mok, ordered an investigation into the case on Tuesday and urged the authorities to “implement the necessary measures to ensure that such incidents will never happen again.”

Some locals placed flowers and a teddy doll at the school door, which closed on Tuesday.

In a police information session on Tuesday, Yook Jong-Myung, the head of the Dajeon Western police station said the teacher was currently recovering at the hospital, adding that he had a neck wound that had been sewn.

The Daejeon Education Office previously said that the teacher had requested an absence permit of six months citing depression on December 9, but had returned to school only 20 days later after a doctor evaluated it as suitable for working.

During his free time, he had suicidal thoughts, Yook said, citing a testimony that the teacher had provided to the police.

Days before stabbing, the teacher had shown violent behavior, including putting another teacher in a head key, the education office said.

Two officials of the Education Office visited the school on Monday, the morning of the stabbing, to investigate that altercation.

After the attack against the co -worker, the Education Office recommended that the teacher be presented and physically separated from the other teacher.

She was forced to sit next to the Viceciral desktop so she could keep under surveillance closely.

Nor had he been teaching classes since his license in December, and had no contact with the eight -year -old student, said the official.

According to the testimony given by the teacher to the police, he had bought a weapon on the day of the attack and brought it to school, and added that he had planned to commit suicide along with a child.

The testimony continued to say that the teacher did not “care about what child was”, and went to the last to leave: he managed to “attract the child to the media room” before attacking them.

The student was reported as disappeared on Monday night after the bus driver informed school that he had not arrived to be collected that day.

South Korea is a country generally safe with strict arms control laws. But in recent years, he has dealt with several high -profile crimes, including stabbing.

“It hurts to see such incidents because a school should be our safest space,” said interim president Choi. “I offer my deep condolences to the victim’s family who suffered great shock and agony.”