The seemingly impenetrable fort finally falls due to a massive onslaught by the Company, and with this, Mat Salleh's final defenses are finally broken.

Mat Salleh is killed by machine gun-fire by mid-day, after a chance shot from a Maxim Gun had hit Mat Salleh in the left temple.

Also killed in the battle are about one thousand of Mat Salleh's followers who fought from the neighboring villages of Lotud Tondulu, Piasau, Kitutud, Kepayan and Sunsuron. 

It will be another five years before the remnants of Mat Salleh's men surrender, are killed or captured by the Company, resulting in the end of the rebellion in 1905.