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Let \((M,g)\) be a general spacetime with the usual differentiability conditions and normed hyperbolic metric \(g\). The authors assume that \(M\) carries two spacelike skew-symmetric Killing vector fields \(X\) and \(Y\) such that \(X\) and \(Y\) are exterior concurrent and both \(X\) and \(Y\) have as generative the timelike vector field \(e_4\) of an orthonormal basis \({\mathcal{O}}= \{e_A\mid A=1,\dots ,4\}\). It is proved that any such manifold \(M\) is a space form of curvature \(-1\) and that \(M\) is foliated by hypersurfaces \(M_S\) tangent to \(X,Y\) and \(e_4\), and such that the normal of \(M_S\) is a timelike concircular vector field. Other structural properties of spacetime manifolds carrying two exterior concurrent skew-symmetric Killing vector fields are also obtained.