Teen, young men identified as stabbing attack victims

The three victims of a stabbing attack in Gan Yavne were all young men, including one minor, the Magen David Adom emergency service says in a statement.

The three, all in serious condition, are identified as a 25-year-old man,  a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy. Their names have not been publicly released.

Medics found the teen on a sidewalk some 100 meters (325 feet) away from the two other victims at the Friendly shopping center, with extensive stab wounds all over his body, a first responder says. He was rushed to a hospital fully conscious, according to the ambulance service.

The two others were found next to a cafe in the shopping center.

A first responder says the 25-year-old was partially conscious, and medics had to fight to keep him alive while en route to Ashdod’s Assuta Hospital. The 20-year-old was found unconscious, and both victims had been stabbed multiple times in the upper body.

“This was a tough scene,” paramedic Shiri Barlev says in the MDA statement.