A 25-year-old man was stabbed to death on a street in south Tel Aviv on Saturday morning.

The man, an asylum seeker currently living in Israel, was taken to Ichilov Hospital, where his death was pronounced. Police are searching the area of Hamasger street, where the stabbing occured, in an attempt to locate a number of suspects who fled the scene.

A preliminary investigation suggests that the stabbers reached the scene of the crime with a taxi, stabbed the victim a number of times in his abdomen, and made their escape in the same vehicle. Investigators have yet to establish a likely motive for the murder.