| IN a world of bis New Reporting, we losted a great reporter...... The house she was staying in shelled hour after she reports kids dieing..............WTF Marie Colvin, a Sunday Times journalist, and a French photographer have reportedly been killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs after the house where they were staying was shelled. Colvin, an American reporter for the British newspaper, and photographer Remi Ochlik both died in the attack, opposition activists and witnesses said. Shells hit the house in which the two veteran war correspondents were staying, then they were killed by a rocket as they tried to make their escape, Reuters reported. Colvin, known for wearing a black eye patch after she lost an eye due to a shrapnel wound while working in Sri Lanka in 2001, was the only journalist from a British newspaper in Homs. At least two other Western journalists were wounded after more than 10 rockets hit the house, it is understood. Only yesterday, Colvin reported on shelling in the city in a video for the BBC, as well as CNN, in which she described the bloodshed as "absolutely sickening". "I watched a little baby die today," she said. "Absolutely horrific. "There is just shells, rockets and tank fire pouring into civilian areas of this city and it is just unrelenting." In a report published in the Sunday Times over the weekend, Colvin spoke of the citizens of Homs "waiting for a massacre". "The scale of human tragedy in the city is immense. The inhabitants are ... |
