Moscow Blast Death Toll Rises as Hunt for Bombers Continues

Three more people have died from wounds suffered in a bomb blast in Moscow, raising the death toll to 11, hospital officials said Saturday.

The bomb detonated during the evening rush hour Tuesday in a crowded underground passageway packed with kiosks selling everything from videos to clothes. Seven people died at the scene and more than 90 were wounded.

The three latest deaths were a man and a woman who died Saturday and a woman who suffered burns over 55% of her body and died Friday night.

Police reported no progress Saturday in finding the bombers, though official suspicion still centered on militants from Russia’s breakaway republic of Chechnya, where federal forces are fighting rebels. In a meeting Saturday with top officials, President Vladimir V. Putin urged security forces to do more to find the culprits.

Authorities were searching for three suspects who witnesses saw fleeing the scene moments before the bomb exploded. In the days since, police have been frisking men and checking documents on city streets.

Police in Moscow seized hundreds of grams of TNT from two men, one of them a Chechen, said Andrei Pashkevich of the Interior Ministry’s organized crime task force, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Saturday. Both men were members of organized crime gangs, he said.

In Ufa, about 680 miles southeast of Moscow, a railroad car loaded with more than 17 tons of TNT was confiscated and an unspecified number of people detained in connection with the seizure, Itar-Tass said, citing First Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Kozlov.