The attack was the deadliest in Russia by Islamist terrorists in 20 years and has shocked the country.
Sunday was declared an official day of mourning in the Moscow region, with shops, businesses and restaurants ordered to close. Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said Vladimir Putin lit a candle in the chapel of his residence outside Moscow.
Bomb scares were reported on Sunday in a St Petersburg shopping mall and at a Moscow airport.
Russian security forces captured four of the Islamic State attackers on Saturday as they tried to escape in a car southwest of Moscow. Two others have been killed.
All four of the captured alleged attackers are Tajik nationals and a video showed them confessing to the shootings while being held in stress positions.
On Sunday, Grey Zone, a Telegram channel linked to the Russian security services, published a photo of one of the captured men being tortured. In the photo, the man lies on the wooden floor of a gym with his arms bound behind his back and his trousers around his knees.
Electric wires hooked up to a military field phone appear to have been attached to his testicles. His face is contorted in pain.
Grey Zone described this as a “standard interrogation” technique and said: “One of the detained migrant terrorists from Tajikistan began to lose consciousness from excitement, so he was connected to a ‘charger’.”
Video also showed at least two of the men being taken to the office of the Russian Investigative Committee’s headquarters in Moscow for interrogation. In the video, they were blindfolded and marched into the building in stress positions.
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