Injured journalists evacuated from Syria
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February 29, 2012, Wednesday
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TWO Western journalists wounded in a rocket attack in Homs in central Syria that killed two journalists have been evacuated from the besieged city.
Syrian rebels smuggled British journalist Paul Conroy out of Homs yesterday and whisked him to safety in neighboring Lebanon, activist groups said.
Thirteen Syrians who were trying to help rescue Sunday Times photographer Conroy and other trapped Western reporters were killed in the operation, one of the groups said.
They did not manage to evacuate a wounded French journalist, two other Western journalists or the bodies of an American reporter and a French photographer killed last week.
However, French President Nicolas Sarkozy later announced that injured French journalist Edith Bouvier has been evacuated from Syria after tough negotiations.
Sarkozy told reporters in the southern city of Montpellier that Bouvier, who works for the daily Le Figaro, had suffered "multiple fractures" in the attack.
Syrian opposition group Local Coordination Committees and global activist group Avaaz said they got Conroy out of Syria.
Rima Fleihan, an LCC spokeswoman, said he was smuggled out by Syrian army defectors.
Avaaz said 35 Syrians volunteered to help get the journalists out and bring aid in.
Of those, 13 were killed in the operation.
It said other foreign journalists "remain unaccounted for."
"I have heard that he is out," Conroy's wife Kate Conroy said. "We are delighted and overjoyed at the news."
Marie Colvin, 56, a veteran correspondent for The Sunday Times, and Frenchman Remi Ochlik, 28, a photojournalist, died in the rocket attack last Wednesday.
Syrian rebels smuggled British journalist Paul Conroy out of Homs yesterday and whisked him to safety in neighboring Lebanon, activist groups said.
Thirteen Syrians who were trying to help rescue Sunday Times photographer Conroy and other trapped Western reporters were killed in the operation, one of the groups said.
They did not manage to evacuate a wounded French journalist, two other Western journalists or the bodies of an American reporter and a French photographer killed last week.
However, French President Nicolas Sarkozy later announced that injured French journalist Edith Bouvier has been evacuated from Syria after tough negotiations.
Sarkozy told reporters in the southern city of Montpellier that Bouvier, who works for the daily Le Figaro, had suffered "multiple fractures" in the attack.
Syrian opposition group Local Coordination Committees and global activist group Avaaz said they got Conroy out of Syria.
Rima Fleihan, an LCC spokeswoman, said he was smuggled out by Syrian army defectors.
Avaaz said 35 Syrians volunteered to help get the journalists out and bring aid in.
Of those, 13 were killed in the operation.
It said other foreign journalists "remain unaccounted for."
"I have heard that he is out," Conroy's wife Kate Conroy said. "We are delighted and overjoyed at the news."
Marie Colvin, 56, a veteran correspondent for The Sunday Times, and Frenchman Remi Ochlik, 28, a photojournalist, died in the rocket attack last Wednesday.
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