A teacher has admitted stabbing a seven-year-old girl to death at a school in South Korea, officials say.
The female teacher, reported to be in her 40s, has been treated for self-inflicted wounds in hospital following the attack in the city of Daejeon on Monday.
She has not yet been arrested as police investigate the attack.
The girl was a student at the school where the teacher worked but police said they have not yet established a personal relationship between the pair.
The girl was discovered by her grandmother, an official at the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education said during a media briefing on Tuesday.
She was found with stab wounds in the neck and face, a local fire department official told Reuters on Monday, and later died in hospital.
Police said the girl was in cardiac arrest when she was found.
Read more from Sky News:
Trump issues Gaza ceasefire ultimatum
British couple suffer 'violent deaths' in France
Nationwide power outage blamed on monkey
Acting President Choi Sang-mok offered condolences during a cabinet meeting over the child's death and ordered the education ministry and the authorities to thoroughly investigate the incident.
The woman had taken a leave of absence while suffering from depression before returning to work late last year, according to the Yonhap News Agency in South Korea.
(c) Sky News 2025: Teacher admits stabbing seven-year-old girl to death at school in South Korea
Assisted dying: High Court would not need to approve cases under change to bill
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman tells Sky News his platform can be safer
Pilot killed as Motley Crue frontman's jet crashes at Arizona airport
Keir Starmer has declared war on £100m HS2 bat shed - but has he got a solution?
Elon Musk launches $97bn bid to buy ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
Council Chair Welcomes "Essential" £35,000 Floating Bridge Budget Spend
Save Westridge Farm Case To Be Heard At The Royal Courts Of Justice In April
Island Seaside Town Could Get Large Eight Bed 'House Of Multiple Occupation'
Isle Of Wight Council To Consider Key £13m Spending Packages Amid 'Unprecedented Uncertainty'