Colvin and Ochlik bodies stuck in Syria

Veteran journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik's corpses might have to be buried in Homs, due to the escalating critical situation in the city.  Britain and France have demanded the Syrian government return the bodies of two slain journalists and treat three other injured journalists. The French and British foreign ministries summoned Syria's ambassadors in their countries and told Syria was expected to make arrangements to return the bodies of Colvin and Ochlik, as well as provide medical attention to the injured journalists. In London, the Foreign Office said in a statement it demanded the "unacceptable violence" in Homs stop immediately, CNN reported. "The Syrian authorities must implement the undertakings they had given to the Arab League, halt all violence against civilians, and start an orderly political transition" before anyone else is killed, the statement said Despite the two's deaths provoking international outrage, Syrian forces have resumed shelling in Homs.  The Guardian website reported its correspondent in Homs as saying: "It's hard, very tiring. And now I don't think I'll be able to leave either that side of the city or the other. We tried yesterday to transfer the whole hospital towards Damascus but we were stopped on the road; there were people killed...I've been here now for about three weeks; I am very tired. I thought I was going to go home tomorrow and I had organised a means of transport. But it seems there is no longer a chance of getting out..." Also the veteran French surgeon Dr Jacques Bérès, who has been operating in Homs for three weeks, was quoted on the Guardian's liveblog as saying that he no longer believes he can leave the city, which is being "almost constantly bombarded." Earlier on Thursday, the Syrian government said today that it cannot be held responsible for the deaths of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik. On Wednesday, the Syrian Information Minister, Adnan Mahmoud, said his ministry has no information about the entry or the presence of Colvin, Ochlik and other foreign journalists in Syria. The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the minister added that the authorities in Homs were asked to look for the whereabouts of journalists who were reported by some media to have been injured in Homs. Mahmoud pointed out that the ministry asked all foreign journalists who entered Syria illegally to refer to the nearest immigration department in the areas of their presence to regularise their status according to law.