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Explosion Rocks Russian Town, Killing 32


VOA News
9 May 2002 14:16 UTC
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An explosion has ripped through the main square of a southern Russian town during celebrations marking the end of World War II, killing at least 32 people and injuring about 150 others. At least 12 of the dead are children. 

The land mine exploded in the midst of a military parade Thursday in the town of Kaspiisk, located on the Caspian Sea, just south of the capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan. Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the blast as a terrorist act and said those responsible will be punished. After giving a speech during Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, he convened an emergency session of his top law enforcement officials. Dagestan is frequently the scene of small-scale bombings that Russian officials often blame on a spillover of violence from the war against separatist rebels in Chechnya. 

Meanwhile in Chechnya, rebels fired on a stadium in the capital, Grozny, where Russian forces and Chechen civilians were celebrating the 57th anniversary of the end of World War II. Media reports say that although grenades fell outside the stadium in the attack, ceremonies inside were disrupted. 

Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP. 

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