A teacher stabbed an eight-year-old student to death at an elementary school in South Korea on Monday, local media reported, citing authorities.

The teacher confessed to the crime after police officers found her and the young girl with stab wounds at the elementary school, local media reported.

A teacher from a South Korean elementary school admitted to stabbing a 7-year-old girl, who later died in the hospital, according to the Reuters agency. South Korean police are conducting an investigation into the attack.