AMMAN - Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said.
They were named as Marie Colvin, an American working for Britain's
Sunday Times newspaper, and French photgrapher Remi Ochlik.
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Both were veteran reporters of wars in the Middle East and elsewhere.