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 Monday, local media reported, citing authorities.

Locals laid flowers at the school's gate to mourn the eight-year-old student 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.

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

A teacher in South Korea admits to fatally stabbing a 7-year-old student: policeChoi Jae-mo/ Director General/ Education Bureau /Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education"The student's grandmother found the student and the teacher lying down at the equipment room of the audiovisual room.