Jakarta - DNA tests confirmed that two suspected Islamic militants wanted for hotel bombings in July were killed in a police raid last week near the capital Jakarta, Indonesian police said Monday.

Eddy Suparwoko, head of the police's Disaster Victim Identification unit, said the slain men were the wanted militants Syaefuddin Jaelani and his brother Muhammad Syahrir.

"DNA samples from both Jaelani and Syahrir's children were matched with the two bodies," Suparwoko said.

Jaelani and Syahrir were killed in a raid on a house in Ciputat subdistrict of South Jakarta on Friday, where police used lethal force against the two men armed with seven small bombs, police spokesman Nanan Soekarna had said.

The brothers had been sought for their alleged role in the July 17 bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which killed nine people and injured 53.

The raid followed the arrest of the men's alleged accomplice, the police said, adding that Jaelani, also known as Zuhri, recruited one of the two hotel suicide bombers.

The man believed to be the mastermind behind the hotel attacks, Malaysian-born Noordin Mohammed Top, was killed last month in a police raid on a house in the central Java city of Solo.

Police said they believed Noordin was also for a string of other attacks since 2003.

Terrorism experts said Noordin was a key financier and recruiter for the Jemaah Islamiyah militant group, blamed for attacks in Indonesia from 2000 to 2003, but later formed his own, more violent organization after disagreements with more moderate militants within Jemaah Islamiyah. (dpa)