REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LONDON - British police say they have contacted Australian authorities about a possible investigation into an Australian radio station's hoax call to a UK hospital. The callers impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles and received confidential details about the former Kate Middleton's medical information. The call was recorded and broadcast.

The prank took an ugly twist Friday with the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, a 46-year-old mother of two, three days after she took the hoax call. British police say that a nurse who was found dead days after she took a hoax call about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was originally from India. 

Scotland Yard said Saturday that 46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha, who was found dead on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 had lived in Bristol in southwestern England for nine years. The nurse was duped by a prank call performed by two Australian DJs, who pretended to be the Queen and Prince Charles to ask about Kate's condition. Saldanha worked at the London hospital where Prince William's wife, Kate, was being treated for acute morning sickness. 

Police have not yet determined Saldanha's cause of death, but people from London to Sydney have been making the assumption that she died because of stress from the call.

The disk jockeys involved have been suspended indefinitely. Australian police Sunday confirmed they had been contacted by London police and said they would cooperate.

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