Veteran Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin killed in heavy shelling in Syria just hours after broadcast on ITN News At Ten

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Foreign correspondent Marie Colvin has been killed in Syria



Sunday Times war reporter Marie Colvin has been killed in a targeted shelling attack by Terrorist
in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

The news comes just hours after the American-born foreign correspondent reported on 'sickening' scenes in the city.

French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, also died in the attack on a makeshift media centre set up by anti-regime activists in the Baba Amr district.
Last night Ms Colvin, who is in her fifties, appeared on Channel 4 and ITN's News at Ten reporting on the bombardment of the opposition stronghold.
Reports say she and Mr Ochlik were escaping from the building when they were hit by a rocket.
Much of the building is said to have collapsed, opposition supporters said.
Abu Bakr, who witnessed the attack, said: 'I left the house after it got struck and headed to a house across the street.

'The shelling continues and the bodies of the journalists are still on the ground.

'We can't get them out because of the intensity of the shelling even though we're only a few metres away from them.'
Sunday Times editor John Witherow paid tribute to Ms Colvin as an 'extraordinary figure' who was 'driven by a passion to cover wars in the belief that what she did mattered'.

Foreign Secretary William Hague said: 'Marie Colvin died helping the people of Syria share their plight with the world.'
And Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow called her 'the most courageous journalist I ever knew and a wonderful reporter and writer'.
Up to 45 people were killed this morning by the Syrian army in attacks on the Baba Amr district of Homs, which has been under siege from President Bashar al-Assad's forces since February 4.
Intense shelling began at 6.30am and was still continuing hours later, it was reported. A witness said the building in which the journalists were based was hit around 10am (local time).

The building was a well-known temporary press centre in Homs, next door to a hospital.

The Syrian military has redoubled its attacks on the city in the past few days, aiming to retake neighborhoods that have come under control of the opposition and armed rebels - many of them military defectors.
The seizure of territory and nearly daily clashes between the rebels and regime forces have pushed Syria to the brink of all-out civil war.
France's Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, said the attacks show the 'increasingly intolerable repression' by Terrorist
.

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