Journalist wouned in Syria said to be out safe (CBS/AP) Updated at 5:35 a.m. A British journalist wounded in the Syrian government's shelling of a residential area in the central city of Homs has been evacuated by smugglers from the battered city and is now safe across the border in Lebanon, an official with Human Rights Watch tells CBS News. Paul Conroy, a photographer, was wounded in the same shelling which killed his Sunday Times colleague, veteran American war correspondent Marie Colvin, last Wednesday. French photographer Remi Ochlik also died in the attack. Human Rights Watch, a non-profit group which has been working to secure safe passage out of Syria for Conroy and another wounded Western journalist, told CBS News of his apparent escape. The Sunday Times, however, said it could not comment on the reports that Conroy had made it out of Syria. There were multiple reports that a second wounded journalist, Edith Bouvier, a reporter for the French daily Le Figaro, was also smuggled across the border to Lebanon. CBS News sources could not confirm those reports, and said she likely remained in Homs Tuesday as her more serious injuries prevented her escape via the same route used by Conroy. There had been numerous attempts to evacuate the journalists, and remove the bodies of Colvin and Ochlik, in recent days, most of them coordinated with the Red Cross. None of them were successful, for reasons which remain unclear. There was no immediate confirmation on the whereabouts of the bodies of the two journalists killed, but CBS News sources said they were likely still in Homs. Poland's Foreign Ministry said Monday that its diplomats were working to evacuate the journalists. Meanwhile, Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, who has refused demands by the opposition and the Western world to step down after almost a year of spiraling violence, continue to pound towns where the opposition holds sway. Opposition activists say the shelling of Homs has continued unabated since the Western journalists' deaths, and a BBC correspondent inside the northern Idlib province reports that towns and villages around the provincial capital have been surrounded by government forces and are now being subjected to the same battery meted out on Homs for weeks. This story was written by CBSNews.com's Tucker Reals in London, with reporting from CBS News producer Ben Plesser in Beirut.