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Tulsa shooting - latest: Police clear bomb threat after four killed in hospital attack

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Tulsa shooting: Five dead in attack on medical clinic.

Authorities confirmed that they did not find any explosives in connection with a bomb threat linked to a hospital shooting in Tulsa that left four dead. A gunman, armed with a rifle and handgun, took his own life inside the St Francis Hospital campus today before killing four others, said the police.

Earlier, the police were searching a residence thought to belong to the suspect after Tulsa police said the shooter may have planted a bomb inside a home in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol bomb squad later cleared the home, finding no devices inside, confirmed the Muskogee Police public information officer Lynn Hamlin.

“Earlier this afternoon, we responded to a call about a man armed with a rifle at the Natalie Building at St. Francis Hospital. This turned into an active shooter situation”, the Tulsa police department wrote on...

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