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Two Western journalists have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs when shells hit the building they were staying in. They were Marie Colvin, an American Sunday Times reporter, and Remi Ochlik, a French photographer. Marie Colvin was a distinguished foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times. She was born in the US, but had been based in London for many years. Speaking to the BBC from Homs on Tuesday, she said she had seen "sickening" scenes, and watched a baby die from shrapnel injuries. She had worked in conflict zones from Kosovo to Chechnya, and across the Arab world. She was injured while reporting from the rebel-held northern region of Sri Lanka in 2001 and lost an eye. Speaking in 2010 at a service remembering journalists killed in conflict, she said that war reporting must continue, despite the dangers. "Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice," she said. "We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story." Remi Ochlik was born in 1983 in Lorraine. After studying photography in Paris he began his career covering conflict zones with a trip to Haiti in 2004. In 2005 he founded a photographic agency, IP3 Press, in Paris, with two fellow photographers. He covered the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2008, and was back in Haiti in 2010, photographing the cholera epidemic and presidential elections. In 2011 he covered the Arab Spring revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and the war in Libya. He won a first prize in the 2012 World Press Photo contest for an image of a rebel fighter in Libya.