Two Western journalists killed in the Syrian city of Homs last week were buried in the embattled neighbourhood where they died, according to activist videos, while two other reporters escaped into neighbouring Lebanon.

Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa has escaped the besieged Syrian city of Homs and is in neighbouring Lebanon, his partner says.

Syrian security forces are advancing on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Baba Amr in the city of Homs, an official says.

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.

A French reporter who was wounded in the Syrian city of Homs appealed for urgent medical attention and asked to be evacuated quickly, in a video posted by anti-regime activists on the internet.

Aid workers moved gingerly around unexploded bombs littering southern Lebanon today to deliver food and fuel to people cut off by weeks of fighting and to evacuate war wounded to hospitals, officials said.