A 19-year-old was stabbed to death during an argument Saturday evening in an apartment in Jerusalem’s Nachlaot neighborhood, Israel Police and medics said.

By Sunday morning, police said they had arrested six suspects in the case.

MDA medics said they found the victim with no vital signs and multiple stab wounds. They rushed him to the capital’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, where he died of his wounds.

Police said they opened an investigation into the incident as a case of criminal violence rather than terrorism, and sette up roadblocks to locate the suspected perpetrators.

Following their subsequent arrest, the suspects were to be brought for a remand hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court later Sunday, police said.

Eyewitnesses told the Ynet outlet that the stabbing happened on Shirizli Street in an Airbnb apartment.

A group of young men had rented the apartment for the weekend.

The identities of the victim and the suspects was not immediately clear.

“I contacted the police several times,” a neighbor told Ynet.

“On Thursday, I told them that there were drugs, prostitution and a mess in the........

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