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Item Leads to Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office Evacuation

The Medical Examiner's fleet at the Tulsa lab.
KWGS News File Photo
The Medical Examiner's fleet at the Tulsa lab.

 An evacuation of the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office in Oklahoma City was lifted after a suspicious device found on a body was determined not to be a bomb or a threat.

Police Sgt. Gary Knight said the device found about 10:30 a.m. Friday appears to be a flare.

Knight said the body is that of a man killed in an auto crash Thursday. He said there are "a number of possibilities" how a flare would wind up with the body, but he didn't want to speculate on a specific scenario.

Medical examiner's spokeswoman Amy Elliott said about 40 people left the building when the evacuation was ordered.