Daejeon 1st Grade Student Dies from Stabbing at School... Teacher Also Taken to Hospital

A first-grade elementary school student in Daejeon was stabbed to death with a weapon.

According to the Ministry of Education on the 10th, around 4:30 PM that day, Miss A did not come to her academy, prompting the academy to contact her home, which led to a police report and the discovery of the incident. With Miss A's consent, the police tracked her phone location and identified it as the school's audiovisual room.

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The police who arrived at the scene found Miss A and Mr. B, a teacher in his 40s, collapsed inside the audiovisual room. Miss A was transported to the hospital by ambulance around 5:30 PM but passed away around 7:30 PM. Teacher B was taken to the hospital with her husband.

The school where the incident occurred decided to close on the 11th and is discussing whether to extend the closure.