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British photographer Conroy safe in Lebanon: newspaper
Wounded British photographer Paul Conroy is safe in Lebanon after escaping from the besieged Syrian city of Homs and is in "good shape", The Sunday Times newspaper he was working for said today.
Wounded British photographer Paul Conroy is safe in Lebanon after escaping from the besieged Syrian city of Homs and is in "good shape", The Sunday Times newspaper he was working for said on Tuesday.
"The Sunday Times can confirm that the photographer Paul Conroy is safe and in Lebanon. He is in good shape and good spirits," a spokeswoman for the newspaper said.
Conroy's father Les said earlier that his son had reached Lebanon.
The 47-year-old freelance photographer was hurt when Syrian forces bombarded a makeshift press centre in Homs last week in an attack which killed veteran Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik.
Conroy issued a video appeal for help last week, saying he was injured and being treated by Free Syrian Army rebels.
A Lebanese activist said Conroy had been smuggled during the night from Homs to Lebanon through an illegal crossing.
"Conroy and people accompanying him entered the Wadi Khaled region through the Hnayder border village after midnight on motorbikes," said the activist in northern Lebanon who helps smuggle wounded people out of Syria.
The northern region of Wadi Khaled borders Syria and is close to Homs.
The French embassy in Beirut said it could not confirm reports that a French journalist who was also wounded in Homs, Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro newspaper, had also managed to cross the border into Lebanon.
