A 50-year-old man is freed and three others remain in custody while police investigate alleged plot to bring down a plane
One-of-four men arrested over an alleged terrorist plot to bring down a plane has been released without charge.
Federal police have spent days searching several properties across Sydneyfollowing the arrest on Saturday afternoon of the men on suspicion of being behind the conspiracy.
A 50-year-old man was released from police custody on Tuesday night without being charged with a criminal offence, a joint statement from the Australian federal police and New South Wales police said on Wednesday.
The remaining three suspects will stay in detention under special powers which allow police to hold them for up to a week.
“This investigation remains ongoing, and further information will be provided at an appropriate time,” the statement said.
The plot allegedly involved an improvised device and the target was a plane, with one theory suggesting the would-be terrorists planned to use a meat grinder to conceal a home-made device.
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