JAKARTA (Reuters) – Forensic tests on the DNA from  the body of a man killed during a raid by Indonesian police  this week confirm he was Noordin Mohammad Top, one of Asia’s  most wanted militants, police said yesterday.
Malaysian-born Top, suspected mastermind of deadly suicide  July bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in  Jakarta, died on Thursday in a shootout during a raid on a  house near Solo in Central Java.

“There is no doubt that he’s Noordin M Top,” national  police spokesman Nanan Soekarna told a news conference.

Hours after the raid, police had identified Top based on  fingerprint records held by Malaysian police, but Soekarna said  on Saturday “the DNA also matches 100 percent”.

The official also held up a photograph of Top’s bearded  face taken after his death to show the match with those on  police file. Top had eluded authorities for years. In a raid in Central  Java last month some police initially thought they had killed  the militant only to have forensic tests prove that wrong days  later.

DNA results matched samples from three of Top’s children  from Cilacap in Central Java and Malaysia, said Brigadier  General Eddy Saparwoko, head of Indonesia’s disaster victim  identification unit.

Top had a wife in Malaysia before he fled the country and  also took at least one more wife while on the run in Indonesia.

Authorities planned to send Top’s body to Malaysia soon  and it would not be necessary for his family there to come to  Indonesia, Soekarna said.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and the world’s  most populous Muslim country, had been under intense pressure  to capture or kill Top ahead of a planned visit by U.S.  President Barack Obama in November.

Top, who set up a violent splinter group of regional  militant network Jemaah Islamiah, was blamed for attacks in  Bali and Jakarta that killed scores of Westerners and  Indonesians.