Journalists bodies leave Syria
The bodies of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlikand have been flown out of Syria on board a French plane to Paris, officials have confirmed.
Syrian government expresses "sorrow" for death of Marie Colvin
The Syrian government has said it would like to express its "sadness and sorrow" at the death of US journalist Marie Colvin who was killed in the besieged city of Homs last week.
"As a natural humanitarian reaction it extends its sincere condolences," Syria's Foreign Ministry said in a statement released by its embassy in London.
Veteran war correspondent Colvin, who worked for Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in a Syrian army bombardment on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Homs when shells hit a house being used as a media centre.
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