Nicola Sturgeon has described the occasions on Skye and Lochalsh the place an individual was killed and three had been hospitalised following a collection of assaults as "horrific and devastating".
The First Minister mentioned your complete nation will probably be considering of the communities hit by the assaults on Wednesday morning.
A person who died following taking pictures incidents on Skye and Wester Ross yesterday which left three injured has been named by cops as John MacKinnon, 47.
At a press convention earlier at the moment police mentioned the opposite individuals who had been injured had been a 32-year-old lady and a 63-year-old man stay in hospital.
A 63-year-old lady who was taken to hospital has subsequently been discharged.
Following the assaults a 39-year-old male was arrested in reference to the entire incidents, which police mentioned they consider are linked.
Talking for the primary time because the assaults, Sturgeon mentioned: "My ideas are with these most straight affected by what has been a horrific incident on Skye. I wish to convey that energy of feeling to these people and households who could have been devastated by what has occurred.
"Clearly, the sort of incidents that occurred yesterday would have been horrific and devastating in any a part of the nation.
"However the sort of communities we're speaking about listed below are small, close-knit communities and that sense of devastation will probably be felt much more acutely."
She added: "All people, I do know, throughout Scotland will probably be considering of the communities affected on Skye proper now."
Talking on the press convention Chief Superintendent Conrad Trickett mentioned: "A 39-year-old man has been arrested in reference to the entire incidents, that are being handled as linked, and there's no menace to the broader neighborhood.
"The ideas of myself and colleagues throughout Police Scotland are very a lot with the household and buddies of Mr MacKinnon and the three individuals who stay injured.
"These incidents happened in a close-knit rural space and have a major affect not solely on these straight affected but additionally buddies and their neighbours residing in these communities.
"Critical incidents witnessed yesterday are extraordinarily uncommon and I wish to additional reassure the native communities that they had been handled and there's no additional menace.
"The policing response was important, as individuals would anticipate, and contain nationwide assets from throughout Police Scotland, together with Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow. Officers had been drafted from all these places to assist division officers and police domestically in Skye."