DAMASCUS: Syria’s Health Ministry said Friday that 14 people were wounded, three of them critically, but that there were no fatalities in the explosion of a minivan taxi a day earlier in a Damascus suburb. The Health Ministry had said Thursday night that two people were killed in the blast. In a statement Friday, it said the fatalities had been incorrectly recorded based on three severed limbs that were pulled from the wreckage. After further investigation, the limbs were determined to belong to living patients who were undergoing surgery, the statement said.

Syria’s Health Ministry said Friday that 14 people were wounded, three of them critically, but that there were no fatalities in the explosion of a minivan

An explosion in a Damascus suburb has killed at least two people and wounded several others. Syrian state media reports the blast in Jaramana was caused by an explosive device in…