In Ingushetia, Governor Yunus-Bek Yevkurov said the militants had killed the police officer to set up the suicide attack at the funeral the next day.

In Moscow, tens of thousands of Muslims gathered on the streets outside the city's main mosque for prayers on Sunday morning. An estimated 2 million Muslims, most of them from the North Caucasus and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, live in the Russian capital, which has a population of 11.5 million.