Teacher stabs eight-year-old girl to death in South Korea

Teacher stabs eight-year-old  girl to death in South Korea.
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News1 A man  stood with his  arms crossed in front of  the school gate. Bouquets of flowers  were thrown to the ground  next to him.News1
Residents laid flowers at the  school gate  in tribute to the  8-year-old student
A teacher stabbed an eight-year-old girl  to death at an elementary school in South  Korea in an incident that has shocked the  nation.
The teacher, in  his 40s, confessed to stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon, police  said.
The girl was found with stab wounds on the second floor of a school building at  6:00 p.m. local time (09:00 GMT)  on Monday and was pronounced dead at  a hospital. The teacher was found  next to her with stab wounds that police  believe may have been self-inflicted. South Korean President Choi Sang-mok on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the case and urged authorities to  "implement necessary measures to ensure  that such incidents  do not occur again." Not a valid attachment ID.
Residents laid flowers and a  rag doll at the gate of the school, which was closed on  Tuesday.
At a police briefing on Tuesday, Yook Jong-myung,  chief of the  West Dajeon Police  Station, said the teacher was recovering in hospital, adding that  he had a  neck wound that had been  stitched up.
The Daejeon  Education Office previously said the teacher had  applied for a six-month leave of  absence, citing  depression, on  Dec. 9, but returned to school  only 20 days later after a doctor  deemed him fit to  work.
While on leave, he had suicidal thoughts,  Yook said, citing testimony  the teacher gave to police. Days before the attack, the teacher had  engaged in violent  behavior, including  punching another  teacher, the education office  said.
Two education office officials went to the school on Monday, the morning of the  attack, to investigate  the fight.
Daejeon City, South Korea
After the attack on the  colleague, the education office recommended that the teacher be  placed on leave and  physically separated from the other  teacher.
She was  forced to sit  next to the  assistant principal's desk so she could be  closely monitored.
She had not  taught any classes since  the December break and  had not  had any contact with the eight-year-old student, the official  said. According to the  teacher's testimony to police,  he bought a  gun the day of the attack and brought it to school  — adding that  he planned to kill  her and a  child.
The testimony  goes on to say that the teacher  "didn't care whose child it  was" and  had intended for the last  one to leave  — he managed to  "lure the child into the media  room" before  attacking.
The student was reported missing Monday  night after the bus driver informed the school that she had not arrived to  pick her up that  day.
South Korea is a generally safe country with strict gun control laws. But in recent years,  the country has  faced several high-profile crimes, including  knife attacks. "It pains me to see incidents  like this, because a school should be our safest  space," said  Acting President Choi.  "I express my  deepest condolences to the  victim's family, who  are deeply shocked and  in grief."

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