Police on Sunday said they were investigating a suspected murder-suicide in the central city of Bat Yam after a man was found unconscious in the street, with a bloodstained knife in his possession.

The man was taken to Wolfson Medical Center in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Police officers were dispatched to the man’s apartment, where, after breaking the door down, they found a woman in her 70s with fatal stab wounds. She was pronounced dead by medics at the scene.

An investigation has been opened into the suspected murder-suicide.

Unconfirmed reports suggested that those involved in the incident were a mother and son.

Similar incidents of suspected or confirmed murder-suicides have occurred across Israel in recent........

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