BEIRUT (AP) — Two activist groups say a British journalist who was wounded in Syria last week has been smuggled to neighboring Lebanon.
The Syrian opposition group Local Coordination Committees and global group Avaaz said Tuesday that Paul Conroy was the only foreign journalist to escape to Lebanon. Rima Fleihan, an LCC spokeswoman, said Conroy was smuggled by Syrian army defectors.
In Beirut, a British embassy official told The Associated Press that London is working on repatriating Conroy, who was injured in the restive central city of Homs along with French journalist Edith Bouvier. The LCC spokeswoman said Bouvier is still in Homs.
American Marie Colvin and Frenchman Remi Ochlik were killed in the same attack and their bodies are still in Syria.
