MOSCOW (CNN) -- An explosion during a Victory Day military parade has killed at least 32 people and injured at least 130 others in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.
_Among those killed were 12 children_ and 15 servicemen.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the attack "terrorism."
Government sources said Thursday's blast occurred shortly before 10 a.m. (1 a.m. EDT) as a military band was passing through a square in the city of Makhachkala.
It is believed the bomb was set off by remote control, according to the source.
_ The victims included children, veterans and musicians who were marching down the street toward a cemetery to lay wreaths at the town's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. _
NTV television reported that the city's hospital was already overflowing with injured.
Ria news agency quoted the president as saying: "Nobody doubts that this was a terrorist act. In the shortest possible time, we will find, convict and punish the criminals."
The blast happened in the Kaspiysk area of Makhachkala, on the Caspian Sea, during celebrations marking the 57th anniversary of the Allied victory over the Nazis.
The cause of the blast was not immediately known although the Interfax news agency cited emergency officials as saying a mine, hidden in bushes, hit a bus carrying the band.
_ In a separate incident across the border in Chechnya, rebels fired on a sports stadium where Russian forces and Chechen civilians were also celebrating the anniversary_ ......
