Injured journalist pleads for quick evacuation

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.

Edith Bouvier, a reporter for the French daily Le Figaro made the appeal in the footage, sitting alongside French photojournalist William Daniels, who said he was not wounded but also keen to be extracted urgently.

“My leg is broken at the level of the femur, along its length and also horizontally. I need to be operated upon as soon as possible,” said Bouvier, who appeared calm and coherent.