Policemen guard in front of a morgue where the body of suspected Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top is being identified by forensic in a police hospital in Jakarta August 8, 2009. Indonesian police shot dead a man suspected to be leading Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top ending an 18-hour siege in Central Java and were trying to identify his body, police sources said on Saturday. Photo Gallery>>>

    JAKARTA, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- National Police Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri said the authorities will carry out a DNA test to ensure that the person shot dead in Temanggung district of Central Java on Saturday is Noordin Mohammad Top, leader of regional militant network of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).

    The police chief said the blood sample taken from the body will be matched with the samples of Top's wife.

    Media reports and some police officers at the scene said the man shot in a siege in a house in the district was Top. But the police chief said he could not confirm without legal evidence.

    "A DNA test will be conducted with his wife, then we can announce who he is," Hndarso told a press conference at the police headquarters.

    He confirmed that there was only one person besieged in the house.

    After shooting Top, police did not find any bombs on his body as it was the habit of Top, but one beside him, Hendarso said.

Police examine a house used as a militant hideout after they raided it in Temanggung, Central Java August 8, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    Top had always been heavily armed with bombs, partly making him often escaped from police ambushes.

    On the State Palace, Indonesian President Susilko Bambang Yudhoyono, who has been targeted by the terrorists, expressed his appreciation on the police achievement, saying that the effort to fight terrorism would continue.

    The body of Noordin arrived in Jakarta on Saturday afternoon.

Police gather outside a house used as a militant hideout after police raided it in Temanggung, central Java August 8, 2009. Indonesian police have shot dead a man suspected to be leading Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top during raids in Central Java and were trying to identify his body, police sources said on Saturday. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    Top was the coordinator of Southeast Asia militant network of Jemaah Islamiah. He was believed to have links with the recent suicide bombings in two luxury hotels in Jakarta, killing nine people and wounding more than 50 others.

    He was labeled as the most wanted man due to his key role in a series of major deadly explosions in Indonesia, including the churches explosion in 2000, Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005, JW Marriot Hotel blasts in 2003 and Australian embassy bombings in 2004. Those bombings killed more than 260 people.

    During his refuge, Top had married three times which helped him with hiding.