Two dead in suspected murder-suicide in Bat Yam

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 months.

In September, a man shot and killed his pregnant ex-wife and then critically wounded himself in an apparent suicide attempt in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.

In April, a 13-year-old boy found both of his parents lifeless in their Jerusalem home, in suspected murder-suicide in which the husband shot his wife with a gun he had a permit for.

Then in June, a 51-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in an apartment in Bat Yam, leading to an hours-long standoff between police and her partner on the roof of the building before he jumped to his death. The partner was suspected of having killed the woman.

Some two weeks later, a man suspected of murdering his elderly mother jumped to his death from a roof in Rehovot.