Teacher fatally stabs eight-year-old in Daejeon

The murderer of the teacher stabbed an eight -year -old girl in an elementary school in South Korea, in the incident that shocked the nation.

Police said that the female teacher, who was in the 1940s, admitted the stabbing of the student in the central city of Daijun.

The girl was found with stab wounds on the second floor of the school building at 18:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Monday, and death was announced in the hospital. The teacher was found next to her with stab wounds that the police said may be subjective.

On Tuesday, South Korean President Choi Sang Mok ordered an investigation into the case and urged the authorities to “implement the necessary measures to ensure such incidents again.”

Some local population put flowers and a doll stuffed at the school gate, which was closed on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Yuk Jong Meong, head of the Western Dagon Police Station, said that the teacher is currently recovering in the hospital, adding that she was wounded on her sewn neck.

The Daijon Education Office said earlier that the teacher asked for a six -month vacation from absence, indicating depression on December 9, but he returned to school after only 20 days after the doctor evaluated it as decent to work.

Yuk said, during her vacation, she had suicide ideas, noting a testimony that the teacher presented him to the police.

Days before the appeal, the teacher showed violent behavior, including the status of another teacher in a close associate, the education office said.

On Monday morning, two officials from the school’s education office visited the appeal to investigate that argument.

After attacking the work colleague, the Education Office recommended a leave and separation physically from the other teacher.

It was made to sit next to the office of the deputy headmaster so that it can be kept under close control.

The official said that she had not been studying any classes since her vacation in December, and she had no contact with an eight -year -old student.

According to the testimony of the teacher, she had bought a weapon on the day of the attack and brought him to school – adding that she had planned to kill herself with a child.

The testimony went on, saying that the teacher did not care about the child who was “, and in the end she was able to” seduce the child in the media room “before attacking him.

It was reported that the student lost Monday evening after the bus driver informed the school that she had not reached her on that day.

South Korea is a general safe country with strict arms control laws. But in recent years, you wrestle with many prominent crimes, including stabs.

“I certainly see such incidents because the school should be safer to us,” said acting chief Choi. “My deep condolences to the victim’s family, who suffered a great shock and suffering.”