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Jakarta confirms death of Bali bombing suspect

By Anthony Deutsch in Jakarta

Published: March 10 2010 16:34 | Last updated: March 10 2010 16:34

Indonesian police have killed a most-wanted Islamist terror suspect in a shoot out capping a series of raids against a new militant network ahead of a visit next week by US president Barack Obama.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president, announced on Wednesday during a lunch in Australia that Dulmatin, on whom the US had placed a $10m bounty, had died on Tuesday in a raid on the outskirts of Jakarta. Dulmatin allegedly assembled bombs used in the 2002 Bali attack that killed 202 people, almost half of whom were Australian.

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