Enquiries are continuing into the cause of a fatal fire in Oxgangs last weekend but police say that is is currently being treated as non-suspicious.
Emergency services were called to the blaze in Oxgangs Park shortly after midnight on Saturday, November 14.
A 29-year-old woman and 40-year-old man were conveyed to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh by ambulance.
The women died shortly after arriving at the hospital and the man has now been discharged.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “The occupants from the flat, a 29-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man, were taken by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where the woman died a short time later.
“The man has since been released from hospital. The fire is being treated as non-suspicious and enquiries are continuing.”
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
