Washington: Eight people were killed in a fire at a house in the Tulsa area of the US on Thursday. Police are investigating the case from a murder angle. The fire was reported around 4 p.m. on Thursday in Broken Arrow, a residential area in Oklahoma, 20 kilometers from southeastern Tulsa.

Broken Arrow police said the fire was suspected to have been set with the intention of murder and police were investigating the matter. Police denied that it posed any imminent threat to the public.

Police spokesman Ethan Hutchins said the scene of the crime scene was complex, so no further information was being provided.

Witnesses told police that the house housed a family of eight, including two adults and six children, but the dead were not properly identified, Hutchins said.

A local woman named Caitlin Powers said she was going out with her children when she saw smoke rising near her house and stopped to find out the incident.

“When I got closer, I saw smoke billowing out of the roof of the house. Powers said two men and a woman were standing in front of the house. Another man was seen dragging a woman out of the front door and the woman was seen unconscious,” she said.

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