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| Police have launched an investigation after Labour MP Anne Moffat was attacked, BBC Scotland has learned. | Police have launched an investigation after Labour MP Anne Moffat was attacked, BBC Scotland has learned. |
| Ms Moffat said she was mugged by a gang of youths and left with broken ribs while walking near her home in Cockenzie in East Lothian. | Ms Moffat said she was mugged by a gang of youths and left with broken ribs while walking near her home in Cockenzie in East Lothian. |
| The East Lothian MP was knocked unconscious and her watch and jewellery taken by her attackers. | The East Lothian MP was knocked unconscious and her watch and jewellery taken by her attackers. |
| She was treated overnight in hospital in Edinburgh after the incident on Friday, but has been left shaken. | She was treated overnight in hospital in Edinburgh after the incident on Friday, but has been left shaken. |
| She is now recovering at home after also suffering cuts and bruises. | She is now recovering at home after also suffering cuts and bruises. |
| Police said they were looking for between four and six young men between 18 and 20-years-old. | Police said they were looking for between four and six young men between 18 and 20-years-old. |
| Ms Moffat told BBC Scotland the attack happened in the evening, when she had gone out to get some exercise on a popular coastal path. | |
| "I was doing a bit of running and a bit of walking and I heard a group of youths in front of me," she said. | |
| Ms Moffat suffered several injuries, including broken ribs, in the attack | |
| "I didn't see them but I heard them and I could tell that they were either high or drunk or they were very loud. | |
| "I took my mobile phone out of my pocket and held on to it and when I came across them I realised they were really quite rowdy and could have been a bit of a threat, but I didn't think this much of a threat." | |
| She added: "I veered to the side away from them and put my head down. The only thing I noticed was one of them was wearing a Celtic top. | |
| "The next thing I knew, they were all jostling about and I don't know if I was pushed or tripped or how it happened but I went down and I knocked my head on a boulder or a stone of some sort and I was knocked out." | |
| Ms Moffat said she did not know how long she had been unconscious. |