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NATASHA CHAKU, MELBOURNE, JUL 6 Stepping up investigations into the failed UK terror plots following the detention of a doctor from Bangalore, Australian police quizzed and later released another four Indian physicians, who had earlier worked with the British health system.
The four doctors were interrogated in the western cities of Perth and Kalgoorlie after police carried out raids in hospitals there.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said four search warrants were executed at hospitals in Kalgoorlie and Perth.
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said a number of items have been taken by police for further examination, including telephones and laptop computers. No dangerous materials have been seized, he said.
Keelty said the four Indian doctors were released after questioning.
He said the four migrant doctors had worked in the British health system and were not considered suspects and had not been charged.
Widening it probe to a third state, the Australian police questioned the fifth migrant doctor in New South Wales. Keelty said the fifth doctor worked in Sydney. Some media reports stated that he too was an Indian.
Acting New South Wales Premier John Watkins said he had no comment at this stage about the doctor who was questioned in NSW by the federal police.
Western Australian Deputy Commissioner (Specialist Services) Murray Lampard said there was "at this point" nothing to suggest a heightened risk to the public.
"The persons of interest have been cooperative and I want to emphasise that if police held information that suggested a heightened risk to the public, the public would be informed, but that is not the case on this occasion," he said.
Keelty said that there was nothing to suggest that those who have been inspected in Australia are guilty in an offence. "we are trying to establish what the linkages are and whether there is any criminal aspect to those linkages."
"There are some principals who are innocent, who couldn't be guilty. There are a number of people party in this investigation. It doesn't make them the suspects but it is quite a complex investigation in the links to make them concrete."
Keelty said the mobile phones and laptop computers, which have been seized, contained about 31,000 separate documents.
"We have now, with the West Australia police, executed warrants in Kalgoorlie at the hospital and also at Royal Perth Hospital," he said. "A total of four search warrants have been executed in West Australia."
He said the doctors who were questioned in Western Australia were overseas trainedand of similar backgrounds to Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was being detained in Queensland.
The police custody of Haneef, who hails from Bangalore, was yesterday extended by four more days for further questioning in the failed terror plot in London and Glasgow.
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