A teacher at a primary school in northern Vietnam under investigation after allegedly beating as punishment with a ruler on his students face.
Warning: graphic images below
The incident took place last Friday in Phin Ngan elementary school in Bat Xat district of Lao Cai. The teacher, identified as Tran Thi Thu Tra, reportedly upset when the six-year-old student, identified in local media only as T., a word during a class dictation misspelled.
The boy's mother Chao Ke Mai, told reporters that he was helped by the incident into account after two school friends T. home school her daughter.
"My child's face swelled up, and had bruises around his eyes," he said.
Bat Xat T. was brought General Hospital where he was treated for bruises around the eyes and the surrounding area of the face, and stopped for monitoring.
A spokesman for the local Ministry of Education confirmed that the incident had taken place, and now the teacher was suspended from his job pending an investigation.
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