Malaga Costa del Sol: Man, 23, stabbed to death near nightclub where concert held - with second man stabbed in neighbourhood nearby

A 23-year-old man was stabbed to death near a nightclub in the popular holiday destination Costa del Sol. The incident happened before midnight on Saturday night (1 June) in Calle Veracruz, near the París 15 nightclub in Malaga city, where a concert was being held. 

Police found a knife on Sunday 2 June which is now being analysed to establish whether it is the murder weapon. The force believes the man was stabbed to death with what either could have been a knife or broken bottle. 

The knife had the hilt covered with black tape and was found in the same street where the incident occurred under a hedge in a car parking bay. The Sur in English reports that the knife was discovered by Malaga city council cleaning services.

According to the online news site, a second attack occurred barely two hours after the first at 1:20am on Sunday 2 June in the El Palo neighbourhood. A 40-year-old foreign man was found in the Plaza Padre Ciganda with a stab wound to the abdomen. He was rushed to a hospital in Malaga city.

The nationalities of the two men have not yet been confirmed.