BARTON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a bomb threat at the hospital in Great Bend.

Just after 3p.m. Thursday, the Great Bend Police Department was dispatched to University of Kansas Hospital Great Bend Campus, 514 Cleveland, in reference to a bomb threat.

Some areas of the hospital were evacuated and the rest of the building was placed on lock down. Emergency personnel from the GBPD, Barton County Sheriff’s office and Kansas Highway Patrol, along with hospital staff, conducted a search of the building and the property.

No suspicious items were located in the area.

Anyone with information about this crime, or any other crime, is asked to call the Great Bend Police Department at 620-793-4120 or Crime Stoppers at 620-792-1300.