Teacher stabs 8-year-old student to death at elementary school in South Korea

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. She had stab wounds in the neck and face, a local fire department official told the Reuters news agency.