By Neena Bhandari, IANS
Sydney : The Australia Federal Police (AFP) investigation into terrorism links with the foiled UK bomb plot has extended to two more states – Western Australia and New South Wales – and five more doctors, including one Indian doctor in Sydney.
Western Australia Deputy Commissioner of Police (Specialist Services) Murray Lampard said the four men questioned in the state were Indian doctors who had come on temporary migrant worker visas.
West Australian Premier Alan Carpenter has confirmed police have searched the home and workplace of a 29-year-old Indian doctor. He said no charges have been laid in Western Australia and "nothing sinister has been found, no suggestion of wrongdoing so far".
According to Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty says officers are questioning other doctors to try to establish any connections with the attempted attacks in Glasgow and London.
He says the doctors who are helping police in Western Australia are overseas trained and of similar backgrounds to Mohamed Haneef, who is being detained in Queensland, according to ABC.
The four doctors were left free after speaking to the police.
The Federal Attorney General, Phillip Ruddock, has said there is still no information to suggest an increased threat of a terrorist attack in Australia.
Meanwhile, the AFP and a British counter-terrorism expert are continuing to question Haneef.