He supplies food to restaurants operating in Sungai Tiram in the early hours of the morning and sells dates.

Hamid was reluctant to talk about his daughter, the newspaper said. He would only say that she taught the Quran to children in the village.

'She is around... and she works to help me sustain the family,' he said softly.

He said the children do not understand what had happened to their father.

'When he left them, they were still babies. I don't think they even remember him.'

Hamid said nowadays all the information that they got about Noordin was from the police, neighbours or, at times, the media.

'The whole world is looking for him, I don't think I will ever see him again. I don't even know what to say to him if I did,' he added.

DPA adds: The man killed in a weekend raid by Indonesia's anti-terrorism police was not the country's most wanted man, Noordin Mohammed Top, police said Wednesday.

DNA tests proved that the man was Ibrahim, accused of playing a key role in last month's bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta, said Edy Suparwoko, head of the country's police disaster victim identification department.

A day before those attacks, Ibrahim, who worked as a florist at the Ritz-Carlton, had smuggled the bombs and one of the two suicide bombers into the hotels, which are linked by an underground tunnel, said national police spokesman Nanan Soekarna.

'He was the one who controlled and conducted the survey' for the attacks, Soekarna said at a news conference.

Police said they believe Noordin was the mastermind behind the July 17 hotel attacks.