Two journalists killed in homs attack
Two journalists were killed when the house in which they were staying after sneaking over the Lebanese border into Homs was hit by rockets. Sunday Times editor John Witherow said Colvin, a veteran war reporter, and her colleagues may have been deliberately targeted.
"They certainly knew that she was there from her reports and broadcasting. And the question is, could they use technology or other means to identify exactly where she and some other journalists were hiding?" Witherow said on BBC television.
"It seems to me perfectly reasonable to assume that they would have targeted them."
The last dispatch from Colvin - who wore a trademark black eye-patch since being wounded in Sri Lanka in 2001 - described the misery inside Baba Amro.
Women and children were crammed together into a basement, huddled in fear and a two-year-old child had died in front of her, she reported on British radio.
British photographer Paul Conroy, reporter Edith Bouvier for French newspaper Le Figaro and Paris-based photographer William Daniels were also wounded in the strike on the Homs house, which global advocacy group Avaaz said had been occupied by journalists and opposition activists.
Bouvier suffered severe injuries to her hip and thigh and was at risk of bleeding to death without urgent medical care, said a member of Avaaz, which has been working with journalists and activists inside Syria.
"We are desperately trying to get her out, doing all we can in extremely perilous circumstances," the source said.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said a Syrian army ceasefire to give rapid access to humanitarian aid was "imperative", adding that the response by the Syrian government to the wounding of Bouvier was insufficient.
"This situation is horrific," Juppe told reporters. "France holds the Syrian authorities responsible and accountable for the lives of our citizens, for the lives of our injured."
Britain's foreign office summoned Syria's ambassador and demanded that Conroy receive medical treatment.