Teacher in China hits school girl, 9, in head with set square; five-hour surgery to mend cracked skull

Photos provided by the girl’s mother showed that skull fragments and foreign material were removed from her brain. PHOTOS: CHENZHOUBEIHUFAYUAN/WEIBO

BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): A male teacher in China has left a student seriously injured and requiring major surgery to remove foreign objects from her brain, after his attempt at a punishment went horribly wrong.

The nine-year-old girl, a fourth-year student at Meixi Lake Primary School in the city of Changsha, Hunan, was taken to hospital on Sept 6 for craniotomy procedures that lasted nearly five hours, Chinese media reported.