Police probe after woman run over and man stabbed

POLICE were investigating separate stabbing and hit-and-run incidents in Edinburgh last night.

A woman was struck by a car shortly before 10pm at the corner of Stenhouse Street West and Stenhouse Gardens. Her condition was not known.

A man was also taken to hospital with stab wounds following an incident at Stenhouse Gardens. Paramedics, CID officers and forensic teams have flocked to the area. Police would only say they were investigating ongoing incidents.

A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: "We are attending a road traffic accident. One woman has been run over by a car and a man was also taken to hospital with stab wounds."