Suspects in Jakarta hotel bombings shot dead

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Indonesian police have raided a house near the capital,Jakarta, shooting dead 2 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants. They were wanted in the suicide bombings of the city's luxury hotels.

One of the dead militants is believed to have recruited two young bombers for July 17th strikes on the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels.

Police believe he sought funding overseas for militant attacks in Indonesia. He is also said to have been a leading member of a militant cell run by the late Malaysian mastermind Noordin Top. A third militant detained earlier led police to the hideout at a student boarding house.

Hospital workers unload one of two body bags  containing a militant from an ambulance after its arrival at police's Kramatjati hospital in Jakarta October 9, 2009. Two Indonesian militants wanted for their alleged role in hotel bombings in Jakarta  have been killed in a shoot-out on the outskirts of the capital, a police source and media said on Friday. REUTERS/Supri