8 found dead after house fire in Tulsa area; homicide feared - The Associated Press - en Español

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Eight radical were recovered dormant Thursday successful a burning Tulsa-area location successful what was being investigated arsenic aggregate homicides, constabulary said.

The occurrence was reported astir 4 p.m. Thursday successful a quiescent residential country of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, 13 miles (20 kilometers) southeast of Tulsa.

Broken Arrow constabulary said that though the occurrence and the deaths were being investigated arsenic homicides, they did not judge an contiguous menace to the nationalist existed.

Police spokesperson Ethan Hutchins said the country was analyzable “with a batch of moving parts,” truthful nary different accusation was being released immediately. Witnesses told constabulary that a household of 8 had lived successful the house, 2 adults and six children, but the bodies person not been positively identified, Hutchins said.

“Understandably, this is simply a daze to Broken Arrow. It’s a harmless city. Broken Arrow doesn’t person this benignant of concern each day,” Hutchins said.

Catelin Powers said she was driving with her children adjacent erstwhile she saw a file of fume adjacent her house, truthful she drove past to investigate.

“When I got person to the house, I saw fume pouring retired from the precise apical of the house, which looked similar possibly the attic,” she told The Associated Press.

Two men and a pistillate connected her telephone were lasting successful beforehand of the house, Powers said, erstwhile different antheral emerged from the beforehand doorway dragging an seemingly unconscious, unresponsive woman. “Her arms were flopped to her sides,” she said.

“She was successful either precise abbreviated shorts oregon underwear and a choky shirt,” Power said. She described the pistillate arsenic having a tan complexion “and looked possibly to beryllium mid-twenties.”

Suspecting the pistillate was dead, Powers said she drove connected truthful her children would beryllium spared the sight.

Broken Arrow is Tulsa’s biggest suburb, with astir 115,000 residents.

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was assisting successful the investigation, helium said.