Last updated February 25 2012 12:01AM
His body flinched, he gulped for air, there was horror in his eyes. News of the latest tragedy hit Abu Sayed like a physical blow. The father of our engaging and intelligent translator, we learnt, had just been shot by a sniper. A week spent reporting undercover from the town of al-Qusayr in Syria, ringed by government troops and shelled by tanks and mortars, was defined by such moments of agony and loss. Of doctors trying desperately to save a middle-aged woman shot through the windscreen of her car; of a medic cleaning blood off a leather jacket and folding it carefully to return it to the family of a dead man; of the crowds carrying garlanded bodies to a graveyard that was running out of space for new burials. On Wednesday came the news of the death of two journalists in nearby Homs, including Marie Colvin of The Sunday Times, a reporter revered
Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3331769.ece
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