Stark images have shown numerous locals sleeping on the streets of Edinburgh in "dangerous" temperatures, which plummeted to -5C at points through the night. The photos were captured by capital-based charity Steps to Hope, who came across a number of rough sleepers in a one-mile radius while patrolling the city centre on Tuesday, December 14.
Locals are seen using sleeping bags, cardboard boxes and other materials found on the pavements as a way to keep warm during the Baltic weather, reports EdinburghLive. However, one man was spotted without a sleeping bag, instead huddling by a building radiator to keep the cold at bay.
The grim incident prompted the charity to question how anyone could survive sleeping on the streets in such extreme conditions.
