Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the stabbing death of a man in West Footscray on Saturday night.

Paramedics were called to Ashley Street, near the corner of Sunshine Road, after reports of an injured man just before 7pm.

Police and SES officers at the site of a man's death near Tottenham railway station in West Footscray. Credit:Wayne Hawkins

When they arrived, those already at the scene were trying to resuscitate the man by performing CPR. He could not be revived.

The man, believed to be in his 20s, has not yet been identified.