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Jon Brady

Eight remain in hospital after Leith Docks boat topple as medics treat serious injuries

Eight people remain in hospital, some with serious injuries, after a boat keeled over in an Edinburgh dry dock on Wednesday.

Emergency services rushed to Imperial Dock in Leith shortly after 8.30am after the RV Petrel, once owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, became dislodged from its holdings and fell at a 45-degree angle in the dock. A total of 33 people were injured, and 12 people were treated at the scene.

NHS Lothian says it has treated 21 patients at hospital following the incident – 17 at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) and four at the Western General. Two people were also taken to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, as health boards scurried to free up availability in accident and emergency departments to treat victims of the calamity.

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