A STUDENT died early this morning after being found with multiple stab wounds in his back at the entrance of Wong Tai Sin Temple.

Wong Tai Sin detectives have classified the student's death as homicide.

Police went to the scene after receiving a report that a man was lying unconscious outside the temple's entrance.

Chan Kin-fat, 18, a Form Six pupil of a school in San Po Kong, was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital but certified dead on arrival at 12.15 am.