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13 killed smuggling photographer out of Homs
By Bassem Mroue, Beirut
A wounded Western journalist working for The Sunday Times escaped from Syria after being trapped for days in the besieged city of Homs, activist groups said.
Some 13 Syrian activists who were helping to smuggle him out were killed in the operation, one of the groups said.The global activist group Avaaz said it helped sneak British photographer Paul Conroy across the border into Lebanon.
Confusion shrouded the fate of wounded French reporter Edith Bouvier. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said he had been told she had also reached Lebanon. He later retracted the statement.
The two journalists were injured last week in a government rocket attack on the rebel-controlled neighbourhood of Baba Amr in central Homs.
Two other journalists — American Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the same attack.
Their bodies and two other uninjured foreign reporters — Frenchman William Daniels and Spaniard Javier Espinosa — may still be in Homs.
Their harrowing ordeal shone a light on the horrors of life under siege in Homs — a stronghold for government opponents waging an uprising against President Bashar Assad’s authoritarian rule.
Hundreds have been killed in more than three weeks of relentless shelling of the city, many of them dying when they ventured out to forage for food as a humanitarian crisis grew more dire by the day.
The Syrian opposition group Local Coordination Committees and global activist group Avaaz said Conroy was smuggled over the border to Lebanon.
Avaaz, which said it organised the evacuation with local activists, said 35 Syrians volunteered to help get the journalists out and bring aid in. Of those, 13 were killed.
Avaaz said three were killed in government shelling while trying to help Conroy through the neighbourhood and 10 others were killed trying to bring in aid while Conroy was on his way out on Sunday evening.
It said the remaining foreign journalists who had been stuck in the area with Conroy “remain unaccounted for”.
The LCC said other Western journalists are negotiating with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to be allowed to leave without having their videos and photos confiscated.
All the journalists killed and wounded in Homs were smuggled into Syria from Lebanon illegally.
“I have spoken to Paul this morning and he sounded in good spirits,” said Conroy’s wife Kate Conroy in a statement on Monday. “The family are overjoyed and relieved that he is safe and look forward to getting him home.”
She said she would not comment further on her husband’s escape for fear of jeopardising the safety of those still attempting to leave.
Activists posted videos of Conroy and Bouvier last week, pleading for help.
French reporter William Daniels was last seen in an amateur video posted by activists last week, standing next to Bouvier, who was lying on a couch. He appeared uninjured.
Espinosa, who works for El Mundo, has been tweeting occasionally. His last tweet, sent on Sunday, linked to a photo he said was from the Baba Amr neighbourhood, of blood pooled in a gutter.