{"id":676579,"date":"2026-07-06T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676579\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:30:11","slug":"man-33-arrested-over-death-at-edinburghs-banana-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676579\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 33, arrested over death at Edinburgh&#8217;s Banana flats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 33-year-old man has been arrested over the death of another man in a stabbing at Edinburgh&#8217;s Banana Flats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Armed officers were called to a &#8220;disturbance&#8221; outside the Leith flats &#8211; properly know as Cables Wynd House &#8211; at about 21:40 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage from the scene showed an ambulance and dozens of police cars. Police said a man was found with serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where he died later. Police Scotland said an arrest had been made and &#8220;inquiries are ongoing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A cordon remained in place outside the flats on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old man has been arrested over the death of another man in a stabbing at Edinburgh&#8217;s Banana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}