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.

A seven-year-old girl was found in cardiac arrest and later died after being stabbed at a South Korean elementary school, an official at the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education said during a media briefing on Tuesday (February 11).

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.