Two journalists killed in Syria

BBC reported that Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed on Wednesday morning in the house in which they were staying in Baba Amr.

Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik were killed in a makeshift media centre in Homs.

Three other Western journalists were wounded in the strike on the house, among them a British photographer, Paul Conroy, whose injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, and the French reporter Edith Bouvier. Her situation is believed to be more serious.

France and the UK have demanded that they be given urgent medical assistance.

The editor of the Sunday Times, John Witherow, said he thought it was possible that the journalists had been deliberately targeted, speculating that government forces may have been able to use technology to identify their precise location.

“It seems to me perfectly reasonable to assume that they would have targeted them,” he told the BBC. <BBC>

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