SEOUL, Feb. 12 -- A teacher stabbed an eight-year-old student to death at an elementary school in South Korea on Monday, local media reported, citing authorities.
The teacher, a woman in her 40s, confessed to the crime after police officers found her and the young girl with stab wounds at the elementary school in the central city of Daejeon on Monday evening, the Yonhap news agency reported.
The girl was brought to hospital "in an unconscious state, but she later died", the report read.
The teacher had stab wounds on her neck and arm, which officials determined may have been self-inflicted, according to the news agency.
"Police found that the teacher had taken a leave of absence due to depression and returned to the school late last yea...