Detectives have launched an investigation after the body of a woman was discovered in a flat earlier today.

Emergency services raced to the property on Barn Park in Wester Hailes just after 11am after the alarm was raised. 

A large cordon remains in place and detectives and forensic officers have spent the day at the scene. 

One local, who declined to be named, said: “We don’t really know what is going on as the police haven’t said much. 

“It is quite scary that someone has been found dead.” 

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We were called around 11.10am on Sunday, 3 March, to a report of a death at a property in the Barn Park area of Edinburgh.

“Emergency services attended and a woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

“The death is currently being treated as unexplained and enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.”