Video: Syria: Marie Colvin's final television dispatch Finishing with the words, "the Syrian army is shelling a city of cold, starving civilians," Marie Colvin's report from Homs featured a harrowing account of the death of a small child who had passed away in front of her following an attack by government forces. Just hours later, Colvin, an American reporter for the Sunday Times was killed alongside photographer Remi Ochlik after the house where they were staying was shelled, opposition activists and witnesses said. Shells hit the house in which the two veteran war correspondents were staying, then they were killed by a rocket as they tried to make their escape, Reuters reported. In the CNN report, after being asked whether the Syrian government was in fact targetting "terrorist gangs" rather than civilians, Colvin provided a stern rebuke to the question. "Every civilian house on this street has been hit, we're talking about a poor, popular neighbourhood," she told CNN. The top floor of the building I'm in has been hit, in fact totally destroyed. There are no military targets here. She added: "It's a complete and utter lie that they are only going after terrorists."