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34 killed in war parade bombing in Russia

Afp, Mosco
A landmine blast ripped through a World War II anniversary parade on Thursday in a Russian territory adjacent to Chechnya, killing at least 34 people, including 12 children, and injuring some 130.
The targets were a detachment of Russian marines and a military band in the town of Kaspiysk in the republic of Dagestan. Neighbouring Chechnya has been the scene of vicious warfare between local separatists and Russian forces.
It was the deadliest single attack in Russia since Moscow launched a clampdown against Chechen rebels in October 1999 and killed at least 19 servicemen, 12 children and three adult civilians, the emergency situations ministry told Interfax news agency.
No one had claimed responsibility as of late Thursday. President Vladimir Putin denounced what he called the "Nazi-like scum" behind the attack. Estimates late on Thursday put the injured at some 130. Earlier reports had spoken of as many as 150.
TV pictures showed Lenin Street, the main thoroughfare in Kaspiysk, stained with blood and strewn with fragments of drums and musical instru-
ments. The explosion occurred as the marines marched past a bus taking a military band to a ceremony for the 57th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, an interior ministry spokesman said.
The death toll continued rising as emergency services rushed the wounded to hospital in the aftermath of the landmine explosion, which happened at 9:45 am (0545 GMT), an interior ministry spokesman told AFP. Putin, who had just finished delivering a Victory Day address in Moscow's Red Square, immediately denounced the perpetrators of the attack as "scum ... whom we have the right to regard as being like Nazis".
The mine was hidden in shrubbery around 300 metres (yards) from the main square of Kaspiysk, around 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of the Dagestan capital Makhachkala, and exploded just before a wreath-laying ceremony, the emergencies ministry said.
Putin immediately called an emergency meeting with senior ministers and dispatched security service (FSB, ex-KGB) chief Nikolai Patrushev to take personal charge of the investigation.
Putin said it was necessary "in the shortest time to identify, convict and punish the criminals", RIA Novosti news agency reported. "That this was a terrorist attack, nobody is in any doubt," the Russian leader said.
"Such crimes and cruelty cannot but cause emotions. These emotions must not prevent us from carrying out a thorough investigation of this crime," he added. Moments earlier, Putin had attended a Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red
Square, where the Kremlin boss warned that 21st-century terrorism was "just as dangerous as Nazism" had been during World War II.
"The forces of evil and violence reappear again and again in the world. Today they have other names and other habits, but they all also bring death and destruction," Putin told the military parade of around 5,000 troops.
Dagestan borders the southern republic of Chechnya, where Russian troops have been fighting a 31-month war against separatist rebels, who had often been linked to terrorist attacks in neighbouring republics.
The chairman of Dagestan's state council, Magomedali Magomedov, rushed to the scene of the attack which he blamed on "the enemies of Dagestan, and the enemies of Russia".
"They are trying to deliver blows to multi-ethnic Dagestan and our common motherland Russia, but they are living out their final days.
The bastards who staged this attack will be wiped out," Magomedov said.
Chechen rebels, who want to declare an Islamic republic in Chechnya that is independent from Moscow, have repeatedly made incursions into neighbouring Dagestan, where Muslim fundamentalism is banned.
As Russian prime minister, Putin launched the military intervention in Chechnya more than two and a half years ago following a rebel insurgency into Dagestan, though another pretext was a wave of bombs that killed around 300 people across Russia.
Sixty-four people, including 23 children, were killed on September 4, 1999, when a bomb destroyed an apartment building used by the families of Russian army officers in the Dagestan city of Buinaksk.
A wave of suicide bombings killed 44 Russian servicemen when separatist rebels hit military targets across Chechnya in July 2000. Twenty-eight people were killed in co-ordinated bomb attacks on three Russian cities in the North Caucasus on March 24, 2001.
More than 3,500 Russian troops have been killed in the 31-month war in Chechnya, according to official figures, although unofficial estimates put the death toll much higher.