Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov arrived in Dagestan to order measures to help those injured in the suicide bombing in Buinaksk while Dagestan's President Magomedsalam Magomedov also arrived. A defense ministry plane carryied a team of military doctors to Dagestan capital Makhachkala, Col. Alexei Kuznetsov, official spokesman for the Defense Ministry said.
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukovpersonally examined on Sunday the scene of the suicide bombing that killed three soldiers at a military firing range in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
The bomber drove a car full of explosives into the army camp near the Dagestani city of Buinaksk shortly after midnight on Sunday. The Defense Ministry said the three servicemen were killed and more than 30 injured. Five of the wounded are in serious condition.
Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Alexei Kuznetsov said Serdyukov received reports from the commander of the Southern Military District and the commander of the troops camped at the firing range.
The minister ordered a full investigation into the circumstances of the attack and asked for a set of concrete proposals to prevent further attacks on military facilities in the district.
Kuznetsov also said the all 27 lightly and moderately wounded servicemen had been transferred by airplane to the Rostov military hospital.
"All the soldiers received bomb-blast injuries of varying severity. The state of health of the personnel is assessed as stable with no life-threatening injuries," Kuznetsov said.
The ministry said earlier that five of the victims were in serious condition and doctors were fighting to save their lives. One of those died.
The attacks came as FSB and counter terrorist officials were congratulating themselves on making headway against the Islamic extremists who are waging a war of terror against Russia in the Northern Caucasus.
The Defense Minister has ordered additional measures to enchasestrengthen anti-terrorist security of military objects in the Southern Military District of Russia, in particular Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia which have seen frequent attacks on police and officials despite the end of a decade-long special regime for counterterrorism operations in Chechnya.
On Saturday, an attempt on the life of Dagestan's Minister of National Policy, Foreign Relations and Information Bekmurza Bekmurzayev was made. Bekmurzayev's car exploded when he was on his way to work in the capital of Makhachkala. The minister survived the attempt on his life, but his driver died.
Dagestan is part of Russia's North Caucasus, a mostly-Muslim region where shootings and bombings are reported almost daily. Russian authorities blame most of the attacks on Islamic militants. Some of the violence also is connected to organized crime and clan rivalries, some reports say.
The military base penetrated by the suicide bomber