Police investigating fire that killed eight in Oklahoma as homicide

Neighbours first reported the blaze at a home in a Tulsa suburb

Eight people have died in a house fire near Tulsa, Oklahoma, that police say they are investigating as a homicide.

Authorities said that neighbours reported the fire at about 4pm in Broken Arrow, Tulsa's biggest suburb that is home to almost 115,000 people. Police provided scant details of what happened or who was killed.