MAIL ONLINE: • Veteran war journalist Marie Colvin was killed by rocket attack last week in Homs, Syria • Film appears to show reporter's body being buried by activists • Burial went ahead as activists had no electricity to keep her body refrigerated • Meanwhile Syrian government troops have amassed outside the city • Britain closes embassy in Damascus as Foreign Secretary William Hague vows to maintain pressure on President Assad to end the violence
American war journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed by Syrian government forces last week, has been buried in a cemetery near where she fell, a Syrian activist has claimed in a video posted online.
Harrowing footage appears to show the veteran war reporter's badly burned body being lowered into a grave in the embattled neighborhood of Baba Amr, where Colvin spent her last weeks.
The body, wrapped in white cloth with a white sign bearing Colvin's name, has been buried because the rebels did not have electricity to keep her body refrigerated. It had started to decay, a rebel in the film footage explains. (+ extremely graphic video) » | Hannah Roberts and Graham Smith | Friday, March 02, 2012
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