2 Prominent Western Journalists Killed in Syria

The French photographer Remi Ochlik and the US-born journalist Marie Colvin. EPA

American Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and award-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik have died in the Syrian city of Homs.

Colvin and Ochlik were reportedly staying in a house in Baba Amr that was being used by activists as a media center when it was hit by a shell on Wednesday morning, BBC has informed.

At least two other foreign journalists were wounded, according to activists. Opposition-held areas of Homs have been besieged by President Bashar Assad's regime since February 4.

"This tragic incident is another example of the shameless brutality of the Assad regime," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland commented, as cited by CBS News.

"That's enough now, the regime must go," French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared after the tragedy.

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