Police Scotland has confirmed the death of a 74-year-old man who was struck by a single-decker bus on Cowgate in Edinburgh, on Saturday evening (2nd November). An eyewitness told The Edinburgh Tab that a head had been found “decapitated” on the ground of the city’s party district.

Social media platform X has been slammed for initially appearing to declare horror imagery of a fatal accident in Edinburgh acceptable to post. Images showing the severed head of an accident victim in Edinburgh’s Cowgate were circulated around the world in the wake of the death on Saturday night.

Police have been dispatched to Edinburgh's Cowgate area following an incident where a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle, amidst circulating reports of a "severed head" discovered on the street. The capital's officers reported to the scene of a critical road collision at 7.