TULKAREM (Ma’an) -- A 24-year-old Palestinian man was stabbed to death in the center of a northern West Bank town on Saturday, medical officials said.

Muhannad Sharif al-Makhoul was stabbed four times by an unidentified assailant on the main street of Attil, neat Tulkarem, medics told Ma'an.

His body was taken to Thabit Thabit Hospital in Tulkarem, and police have opened an investigation into the incident.