{"id":341290,"date":"2025-08-13T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341290\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:51:11","slug":"hunt-for-two-suspects-after-man-attacked-on-queensferry-street-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341290\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for two suspects after man attacked on Queensferry Street in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A hunt has been launched for two suspects after a man was taken to hospital following an attack in Edinburgh. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were alerted to the incident which happened on Queensferry Street at its junction with Melville Street at around 11.40pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are looking to trace two male suspects connected to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The first suspect is described as white, around 5ft 10in, of medium build, with a bald head and dark clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The second man is also described as white, around 5ft 10in, of medium build, with short dark hair and possibly wearing a red T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood they left in the direction of Randolph Place.<\/p>\n<p>Police Scotland is urging anyone with information about the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Detective constable Gary Lipscombe said: \u201cOur enquiries are ongoing and I am appealing for anyone with any information to contact us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand the area was busy with people at the time and I would ask anyone who witnessed the incident and who haven\u2019t already spoken to police to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also appeal to anyone with dash cam or private CCTV footage to contact us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with any information is asked to contact <strong>101 <\/strong>quoting reference 0003 of August 13, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hunt has been launched for two suspects after a man was taken to hospital following an attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021786966016020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}