An unknown assailant stabbed Egyptian national Farouq Hussein Saradi to death in the Badaro area of Beirut, the National News Agency reported.

Saradi, who was born in 1948, used to work as the concierge at the Al-Khayyat building on Al-Alam Street, the report added.

He was stabbed several times by a masked assailant and died from acute bleeding of the heart and chest.

The Egyptian man was transferred to the Hotel Dieu de France Hospital in Ashrafieh, where he died due to his wounds.