Police are on the hunt for a group of mystery attackers who allegedly stabbed a British tourist and hurled him from a car, leaving him fighting for his life.

Andrew Joseph Cook, 36, from Manchester, was reportedly with two other foreigners and a Thai woman in a white Toyota Veloz that pulled over in a car park in Pattaya, Thailand, on Friday evening.

The British man, an ex-convict who served more than two years in prison after fracturing a man's skull, was already covered in blood when the driver dragged him out of the backseat and dumped him onto the pavement.

The driver then allegedly stabbed Mr Cook with a knife before the group fled the scene.

Shocked local Sayan Samanmit, 49, a taxi driver who was waiting for passengers at the scene when it happened, immediately called the police.