CAIRO, Mar 11 (Aswat Masriya) - Prosecutors referred a teacher to criminal court on Wednesday, after he was investigated for accusations of beating a pupil leading to the child's death. 

The charges the teachers faces are beating in a manner which led to death, use of "cruelty" and the possession of a weapon, a stick. 

The elementary school student passed away on Sunday after days of battling injuries sustained in a beating inside his school in Cairo's Sayeda Zainab neighbourhood. 

When the fifth grader was taken to hospitallast week, he was unconscious and suffered from a brain haemorrhage. 

Prosecutors began investigating the teacher prior to the student's death for use of "cruelty".

However, the charges were elevated after the student succumbed to his injuries.