POLICE are closing in on a gang who stabbed a man in a brutal attack.

A 34-year-old man was set upon by the group on Saturday morning around 12.25am on Ashgill Road, Milton.

He was stabbed by the four men after being dropped off in a taxi on Balmore Road, and was left with life-threatening injuries.

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The man was taken to the Royal Infirmary by paramedics, and is in a critical condition

Officers are now understood to be following a positive line of enquiry in relation to the attack, which they are treating as attempted murder.