Syrians Killed in Rescue of Foreign Journalists, Activists Say Video said to show the ongoing bombardment of a neighborhood in Homs, Syria, posted online by activists on Tuesday. As my colleagues Neil MacFarquhar and Alan Cowell report, a British photographer who was wounded last week in the Syrian city of Homs was smuggled out of the country on Tuesday in a rescue effort that cost three Syrians their lives, activists said. A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said in a statement posted on Facebook: "We can now confirm that the injured British journalist Paul Conroy is safely in Lebanon, where he is receiving full consular assistance from our Embassy." A short time later, France's BFMTV broadcast comments from French President Nicolas Sarkozy in which he expressed relief at reports that an injured French reporter, Edith Bouvier, had also been evacuated safely from Syria to Lebanon. Although Mr. Sarkozy told BFMTV that he was "very happy for her," and was glad that "this nightmare was over," he said that he had no spoken to her directly, and there was no official confirmation of Ms. Bouvier's rescue from the French ministry of foreign affairs. Mr. Conroy, who was working for London's Sunday Times, and Ms. Bouvier, who writes for Le Figaro, were both wounded last Wednesday in a rocket attack on a media center in Baba Amr, a section of Homs the Syrian military is fighting to retake from the rebel force of defectors known as the Free Syrian Army. Two of their colleagues, the American writer Marie Colvin and the French photographer Remi Ochlik, were killed in the same attack. According to a report on the rescue on the home page of The Times of London: "Paul Conroy was carried out of the besieged city of Homs on a stretcher in a nerve-racking 26-hour operation that cost the lives of 13 Syrian volunteers, The Times has been told. The wounded Sunday Times photographer was taken stage by stage along a smuggling route between Homs and the Lebanese border 20 miles away. At least three Syrian activists were killed in the rescue effort, according to Avaaz, a global activist network that has been aiding the protest movement in Syria. In a statement, Avaaz said that activists it works with had coordinated the effort to smuggle Mr. Conroy, Ms. Bouvier and two other foreign journalists - William Daniels, from France, and Javier Espinosa, from Spain - out of Homs, along routes used to sneak medical supplies and communications equipment in to the city. The whereabouts of Mr. Daniels and Mr. Espinosa were not immediately clear. The international activist group also said that 10 activists were killed last week in an operation to smuggle medical supplies into Baba Amr. Last week, Syrian activists in Homs released video messages from Mr. Conroy and Ms. Bouvier appealing for help. The International Committee of the Red Cross subsequently tried and failed to negotiate the medical evacuation of Ms. Bouvier, who suffered a broken leg in the attack that killed her colleagues, from Homs. Ricken Patel, a Canadian who helped found Avaaz and MoveOn, said: "Paul Conroy's rescue today is a huge relief but this must be tempered with the news that three remain unaccounted for and with our respects for the incredibly courageous activists who died during the evacuation attempts." A spokesman for Avaaz, Will Davies, told The Lede last week that the group has played a leading role in providing video cameras and satellite phones a network of Syrian activists documenting the protests and repression inside Syria over the past 11 months. According to Avaaz, it has provided equipment to more than 300 activists and helped to distribute about 30 percent of all the footage seen on the BBC and CNN from the country.