ZAMBOANGA (Philippines), Oct 7: Indonesian militant Dulmatin, who has a 10 million dollar US bounty on his head, is hiding out in the Philippines, a spokesman for a separatist group said on Friday.

Dulmatin, a putative Al Qaeda-trained electronics expert suspected to be one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, is in Mindanao, said Eid Kabalu from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

He said Dulmatin was with the senior leader of militant group Abu Sayyaf, Khadaffy Janjalani, as well as another alleged member of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Umar Patek.

The US reward announced on Thursday for information that could help capture or kill Dulmatin is second only to the 25 million dollars offered for Osama bin Laden and Iraq’s guerilla leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi.

Kabalu said Dulmatin, Patek and Janjalani had been together in central Mindano when the Philippines military launched an operation to try to catch them in July.—AFP