CAIRO: An American and French journalist were killed Wednesday in Syria's bombarded city of Homs when a house activists used as a media center was targeted. 19 more people were killed in the shelling. French photojournalist Remi Ochlik and American war reporter Marie Colvin, who was working for the Sunday Times, were confirmed dead on Wednesday. The house was in the neighborhood of Baba Amr, which has seen daily bombardment from the government in attempt to silence opposition. Two other journalist were wounded in the attack, a photographer for the Sunday Times and a reporter from Spain. A Syrian activist told France24 news that the random bombardment is still going on and it is making getting the bodies out of the rubble a “very hard job.” Ochlik was 25 and Colvin was 50. The bodies were moved to a nearby field hospital in Homs. Last week, the New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack in Syria during one of the violent shellings. On January 11 French TV journalist Gilles Jacquier, 43, was killed in Homs. He was the first western journalist to be killed in the Syrian government's crackdown on the popular uprising, which began in March. The United Nations estimates the number of dead since last March to be 5,400 people, yet activists in the country say the number quite exceeds 7,200 people over the past 11 months. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/QGA7s Tags: featured, Homs, Marie Colvin, Remi Ochlik Section: Latest News, Media, Syria
