Police searching for gang who assaulted man outside Aberdeen shop

Police are hunting a gang who assaulted a man on an Aberdeen street this evening.

Emergency services were called to a stretch of Great Northern Road near a Poundstretcher store following reports of the attack at about 6.30pm.

The man suffered a cut to the head, but police said the injury was not serious and that an ambulance was called to attend only as a precaution.

A spokesman for the force said that officers are now scouring the area in a search for the “number of others” who carried out the attack.

He said: “The male has been assaulted by a number of other people, and suffered a cut to his head.

“This appears to have taken place outside a Poundstretcher store, and the individuals responsible made off afterwards.

“Police are presently searching the area for them.”