A blind girl just got petrified by Bonfire Night chaos in Edinburgh

Disorder broke out across south Edinburgh on Bonfire Night, two days ago. And one father says it's left his family ready to leave the home they've had for 13 years.

Aaron Afshari is 42. He lives in Oxgangs with his two teenage daughters. One of them is blind.

He told the Edinburgh Evening News he wants to move his family out of the area after what happened that night.

So what happened?

Police Scotland says officers were called to Oxgangs Road North at about 5.30pm. The report was that youths on bicycles had blocked the road.

The youths set the blockade alight. Then they set off fireworks at the officers and fire crews who turned up. Police say no injuries were reported.

A police helicopter went up over Colinton Mains, Oxgangs and Firrhill.

Between 30 and 50 officers in full riot gear were sent to Oxgangs Drive. They tried to put up barricades.

Youths also attacked a Scotmid shop nearby. They threw fireworks at it and smashed bottles off its windows. The shutters had to come down.

Aaron Afshari says the next morning the streets were still covered in melted plastic. He says he and his daughter had to dodge firework canisters and broken glass on the way to school.

That's a blind child walking to school through the wreckage of the night before.

He says his daughter was left petrified.

A local resident has lived in the area for 13 years too. They said they'd never seen anything like it before.

And here's the part worth knowing. Oxgangs wasn't one of Edinburgh's 14 Firework Control Zones that night. A police dispersal zone was in place there instead. Across the city, 21 dispersal orders were issued.