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STORY: :: February 11, 2025:: Daejeon, South Korea:: A teacher in South Korea admits to fatally stabbing a 7-year-old student: policeChoi Jae-mo/ Director General/ Education Bureau /Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education"The student's grandmother found the student and the teacher lying down at the equipment room of the audiovisual room. After that, the police opened the locked door and entered. At around 5:40 p.m., the student was taken to the hospital by ambulance, and the student's father went to the hospital by the vice-principal's car.""(The teacher) was on medical leave from December 9 to December 29 due to depression."The girl was found on Monday (February 10) lying on the floor, next to a teacher, in the school's audiovisual room, the official said. The girl was a student at the school where the teacher worked, though police have not established a personal relationship between the two so far, according to a police official.The girl was discovered by her grandmother, an official at the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education said during the media briefing. The girl’s grandmother and other family members had been looking for her after it emerged that she had left her class on Monday but did not board a private institute bus she was supposed to be on.The female teacher is being treated for self-inflicted wounds in hospital. She had taken a leave of absence for medical reasons before prematurely returning to work late last year, the education office official told the briefing.
