Veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin — an American citizen — and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed in Syria on Wednesday.
Colvin, a reporter for The Sunday Times of London, and Ochlik reportedly died after the house they were staying in was shelled. A witness said they were hit by a rocket upon trying to escape.
From the NY Times:
Video footage posted on social networking sites showed what seemed to be two bodies lying face down in rubble inside a building identified in news reports as a makeshift media center in a beleaguered neighborhood of Homs, where rebels have been under sustained fire for almost three weeks. Three other Western journalists were injured in the attack, activists said.
According to his Web site, Mr. Ochlik, in his late twenties, had covered wars and upheaval in Haiti, Congo and the Middle East. Ms. Colvin, 55, was a veteran of many conflicts from the Middle East to Chechnya and from the Balkans to Iraq and Sri Lanka, where she lost an eye covering a civil war. She wore a distinctive black eyepatch. Both had won awards for their work.
