Syrian Prime Minister Survives Blast, State TV Reports

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi survived a bomb explosion that killed at least six people as his convoy traveled through Damascus, state television said.

At least 15 people were wounded in the blast in the capital’s Mazzeh district, the television station’s website said. The dead included a bodyguard, Rami Abdurrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said by phone, while a second bodyguard and a driver were injured. Five civilians also died in the blast, the Coventry, England-based Observatory said on its Facebook page, citing unidentified medical sources.