Efforts are continuing to rescue two wounded journalists trapped in Homs amid continued heavy shelling of the besieged Syrian city.
International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman Hicham Hassan said his group and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent have been in Baba Amr, the neighbourhood in Homs that has become the centre of the Syrian revolt, since this afternoon.
British photographer Paul Conroy (47), was injured and his Sunday Times colleague Marie Colvin (56), was killed in a rocket attack by Syrian government forces on the makeshift media centre where they were working on Wednesday.
The attack on the media centre in Homs on Wednesday also killed French photojournalist Remi Ochlik and left French reporter Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro seriously injured.
Mr Conroy, a freelance photographer and filmmaker on assignment with the Sunday Times, appealed for help in escaping Homs in a video posted on YouTube yesterday.
Lying on a sofa in a darkened room and covered in a blanket, he said he sustained “three large wounds” to his leg in the attack.
“I’m currently being looked after by the Free Syrian Army medical staff, who are treating me with the best medical treatment available. It’s important to add that I’m here as a guest and not captured,” said Mr Conroy, who is originally from Liverpool. "Obviously any assistance that can be given by government agencies would be welcome and we will work on the same premise on the ground.”
At one point in the video, the sound of a shell attack can be heard in the background.
Ms Bouvier also pleaded in a YouTube video for help in being evacuated to safety in Lebanon. “I need to be operated on as soon as possible,” she said. “Here the doctors have treated us very well, as well as they can, but they cannot perform surgical operations, so I need a ceasefire to be imposed as soon as possible.”
A British foreign office spokeswoman said: “All the necessary work is being done on repatriating Marie Colvin’s body and ensuring Paul Conroy gets to safety.”
Diplomatic officials are also working to recover the body of US-born Ms Colvin, an award-winning war reporter hailed as one of the greatest foreign correspondents of her generation.
Syrian activists have accused Syrian president Bashar Assad’s forces of deliberately targeting the journalists in Wednesday’s attack.
The Syrian foreign ministry has offered condolences to the families of Ms Colvin and Mr Ochlik but denied any responsibility for their deaths.