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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — Noordin M. Top, one of Asia’s most wanted terrorism suspects and believed to have been behind the twin hotel bombings in Indonesia’s capital last month, was killed Saturday, ending a six-year manhunt, law enforcement sources tell CNN.
He was killed after an 18-hour firefight with Indonesian security forces in Indonesia’s Central Java town of Temanggung, a security forces source and a police source said.
Top was also suspected in the 2004 attack on the Australian Embassy in Jakarta where 16 people were killed and more than 200 wounded, national police chief Bambang Hendarso said.
The firefight began Friday afternoon, with witnesses telling Indonesian television about gunfire and explosions coming from the direction of the house where Top was holed up.
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