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Indonesian police have shot dead five suspected militants in Bali who officials say were planning to carry out an attack later this week, the Sky News reported.

The national counter-terrorism agency said the men were linked to the banned Jemaah Islamiah group which carried out nightclub bombings on Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, most of them Australian tourists, officials said.
The 2002 attacks were a watershed for Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population, forcing the secular state to confront the presence of violent militants on its soil. Bali, which is majority Hindu, is a global tourist destination, the Reuters reports.

The five arrived on Bali on March 17 and surveyed La Vida Loca nightclub in the Seminyak beach resort, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Kuta where the 2002 attack took place.