Invader grins down at the Scottish people after his stabbing spree outside a school.

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Two people have been taken to hospital following an incident in Edinburgh involving a man who was seen with a knife.

Police firearms officers responded to reports of a man with a bladed weapon in the Calders area of the city at 08:25.

The two injured people have been taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment and police say there is not believed to be any wider risk to the public. The suspect is thought to be holed up in an 11th-floor flat.

A Police Scotland statement said the incident was not being treated as terror-related.

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The police were there but they said they weren't allowed to get out of their car because it was a firearms incident.
"He walked away up to the flats."
Firearms officers are routinely deployed to knife incidents and were seen going into the block of flats.

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BBC folks. No images of the suspect.

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Two people have been taken to hospital following an incident in Edinburgh involving a man who was seen with a knife.

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police say there is not believed to be any wider risk to the public

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