A teacher at Daejeon Elementary School has not yet been arrested for the death of a seven-year-old student yesterday, police say.
Daejeon police said Tuesday that an elementary school teacher admitted to stab a 7-year-old girl who was seriously injured during her after-school care program on Monday.
The incident shocked South Korea, when President Choi Sang-Mok offered condolences during a cabinet meeting on the death of a child and ordered the Ministry of Education and authorities to investigate the incident thoroughly.
The female teacher is being treated for self-harmed wounds in the hospital, said Yuk John Mayon, chief of Greater Heon’s Western District Police Station. She has not yet been arrested as police are still investigating Monday’s stab wounds.
The teacher reportedly in her 40s told police she recently returned to work after a period of leave due to health reasons, saying she has been undergoing treatment for depression since 2018.
The victim was a student at an elementary school where the teacher worked, but police said the relationship between the two has not yet been established.
The girl was discovered by her grandmother. Grandmother said at a media briefing on Tuesday, an official from the Great Jeon Metropolitan Education Bureau. She was found stabbed in the neck and face, local fire department officials told Reuters on Monday, later dead at the hospital.
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