Overview
- Emergency services cordoned off Durar Drive and Ardshiel Avenue in Clermiston early on Thursday after officers found a 42-year-old man injured and took him to hospital for treatment.
- Images and witness accounts show an arrow from a crossbow, a metal bar and blood-stained items at the scene, with police evidence markers in place.
- Two men aged 34 and 32 have been charged in connection with the assault and are due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday, 26 June.
- A 60-year-old man who was arrested was later released without charge, and Detective Inspector Alan Sharp said enquiries remain ongoing and police are not seeking to identify anyone else.
- The incident comes against a backdrop of earlier violent attacks in Edinburgh that prompted a broader investigation, though no official link between those incidents and the Clermiston assault has been reported.