South Korean police are questioning an elementary-school teacher in connection with the fatal stabbing of a pupil in the city of Daejeon

An 8-year-old student died after being stabbed by a teacher at an elementary school in South Korea, according to multiple news reports citing police. Police who responded to the school in the city of Daejeon on Feb. 10 found the child and the female teacher, who was in her 40s, with stab wounds, according to the Yonhap News Agency and Reuters .

Mourning of elementary school pupil killed by teacher A woman lays a bouquet of chrysanthemums at an elementary school in the central city of Daejeon on Feb. 11, 2025, to mourn the death of an 8-year-old student who was stabbed to death by her teacher the previous day.

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).

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. The female teacher, who is in her 40s, confessed to stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon,

The central city of Daejeon police has explained how a teacher fatally stabbed an eight-year-old girl at an elementary school in South Korea to death. The female teacher, who is in her 40s, confessed to stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon,

The female teacher, who is being treated for self-inflicted wounds in hospital, has not yet been arrested, police said.