A top-ranking Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the deadliest terrorist attack in Indonesia's history was one of three suspects killed in a March 9 shootout with police at an Internet cafe on the outskirts of Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono confirmed March 10.

Dulmatin , the 39-year-old alleged master bomb maker of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant group, a Southeast Asian offshoot of al-Qaida, was wanted for the suicide bombings that tore through two Bali nightclubs popular with Westerners in 2002, killing 202 people.

He has been one of Southeast Asia's most wanted fugitives and was thought to have fled to the Philippines.