Police raid Kazakh team hotel at World Championships

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian police have searched the Kazakh team's hotel accommodation at the biathlon World Championships, they said on Thursday.

"A search was carried out on Feb. 8... Numerous medical products and medicines were seized," they said in a statement.

Attempts to contact the team's spokesman via phone and email were not immediately successful.

The event is taking place in the Alpine resort of Hochfilzen.

(Reporting by Francois Murphy; editing by John Stonestreet)