Kansas university on lockdown amid search for possible armed person

[September 05, 2015]  (Reuters) - Kansas State University was on lockdown on Friday amid a search for possible armed person, the school said on Twitter.

Students and staff were advised not to come to the school's Manhattan campus, and classes were postponed, the officials said. The school described the suspect as a light-skinned black male wearing dirty white shirt and shorts.

(Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago; Editing by Scott Malone)

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