Meanwhile some of the journalists wounded in yesterdays attack which killed in rocket attacks on a makeshift media centre on Wednesday, including Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, as well as a 6-year-old boy, have called for safe passage from the city to receive medical attention. Speaking from her home in East Norwich, New York, Mrs Colvin said: ' She was supposed to leave (Syria) today,' adding that her daughter had spoken yesterday with her editor at the Sunday Times who ordered her to leave because it was so dangerous. Mrs Colvin said: ' She had to stay. She wanted to finish one more story," she said. 'Her legacy is: Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in. 'And do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.'  President Bashar al-Assad's army was so determined to silence reporters who were telling the world about the relentless killing of civilians in the besieged city of Homs that they pledged to "kill any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil". Before the building was attacked, Syrian army officers were allegedly intercepted by intelligence staff in neighbouring Lebanon discussing how they would claim journalists had been killed in crossfire with "terrorist groups". Jean-Pierre Perrin, a journalist for the Paris-based Liberation newspaper who was with Colvin in Homs last week, said they had been told the Syrian Army was deliberately going to shell their media centre, which had a limited electricity supply and internet access thanks to a generator. Mr Perrin said: 'A few days ago we were advised to leave the city urgently and we were told: 'If they (the Syrian Army) find you they will kill you'. In her last report she told how she was forced to watch a little boy (pictured) of just two die 
 
 Bombardment: Fire and smoke rising from buildings in the Baba Amr neighbourhood in Homs during an attack by Syrian forces 
 
 A still image taken from Turkish news crew video showing the location where Marie Colvin was among journalists killed in shelling by Syrian government forces in the besieged city of Homs 
 
 'I then left the city with the journalist from the Sunday Times but then she wanted to go back when she saw that the major offensive had not yet taken place.' Mr Perrin, who headed to Beirut from Homs, said the Syrians were 'fully aware' that the press centre was broadcasting direct evidence of crimes against humanity, including the murdering of women and children. It was in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, that he received news of the intercepted Syrian Army radio traffic. Colvin with Libyan rebels in Misurata in 2011 
 
 In Beirut, he was told about the intercepted radio traffic and said it was clear that Mr Assad's forces knew that there would be "no more information coming out of Homs" if they destroyed the press centre. She also accused Mr Assad's forces of "murder" and said it was "a complete and utter lie that they are only targeting terrorists…the Syrian army is simply shelling a city of cold, starving civilians". Sources in Damascus confirmed that Syrians, including Mr Assad, would have been able to watch Colvin's broadcasts – a fact that could have sealed her fate. Frederic Mitterrand, the French culture minister, said Colvin and Ochlik had been 'targeted and tried to flee the bombardment', and eyewitnesses in Homs said were killed as they fled the centre. Reporters working in Homs, which has been under siege since Feb 4, had become concerned in recent days that Syrian forces had "locked on" to their satellite phone signals and attacked the buildings from which they were coming. Abdu al-Homsi, an opposition activist, confirmed that the Army had cut phone lines into the city and were bombing any buildings where they detected mobile phone signals. Colvin in the mountains of Chechnya in 1999 
 
 Hours before she died, Colvin had given interviews to several broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN in which she described the bloodshed as "absolutely sickening". Marie Colvin with Libyan rebels in Misrata last June where she was reporting on the uprising against the Gaddafi regime 
 
 Foreign Secretary Willaim Hague and writer Salman Rushdie paid tributes to Colvin on Twitter 
 
 Abu Bakr, who witnessed the attack, said: 'I left the house after it got struck and headed to a house across the street. He added: ‘Marie believed profoundly that reporting could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes and make the international community take notice.’ 
 
 Prime Minister David Cameron said: 'This is a desperately sad reminder of the risks that journalists take to inform the world of what is happening and the dreadful events in Syria, and our thoughts should be with her family and her friends.' Ed Miliband described her as "an inspiration to women in her profession" and Mr Hague said Colvin was "utterly dedicated to her work, admired by all of us who encountered her, and respected and revered by her peers". The U.S. State Department has also condemned the 'shameless brutality of Assad's regime'. Last night the Syrian Ambassador to London, Dr Sami Khiyami, was summoned to the Foreign Office and told the government was "horrified" by the ongoing violence in the city. Up to 45 people were killed this morning by the Syrian army in attacks on the Baba Amr district of Homs, which has been under siege from President Bashar al-Assad's forces since February 4. This image from amateur video is believed to show Paul Conroy of the Sunday Times, left, and Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro in a makeshift clinic in Homs today 
 
 The building was a well-known temporary press centre in Homs, next door to a hospital. The EU described the killings as “crimes” in a statement, while French foreign minister Alain Juppe said Paris was holding the Syrian government responsible. Action man: French photographer Remi Ochlik seen in Cairo, Egypt, in November 2011 
 
 Missed: French photographer Remi Ochlik was killed in the rocket attack in Homs that killed Marie Colvin 
 
 
 
 The Damascus regime has tried to stop international journalists reaching opposition strongholds such as Homs to report on the crackdown. In a report published in the Sunday Times over the weekend, Colvin spoke of the citizens of Homs "waiting for a massacre". She wrote: 'The scale of human tragedy in the city is immense. The inhabitants are living in terror. Almost every family seems to have suffered the death or injury of a loved one.' Rupert Murdoch, who owns the Sunday Times, described Colvin as "one of the most outstanding foreign correspondents of her generation" with a "determination that the misdeeds of tyrants and the suffering of the victims did not go unreported". Describing the situation in Homs as 'absolutely sickening', she said: 'There’s just shells, rockets and tank fire pouring into civilian areas of this city, and it’s just unrelenting.' Sunday Times editor John Witherow said today in a statement: 'Marie was an extraordinary figure in the life of The Sunday Times, driven by a passion to cover wars in the belief that what she did mattered. He said she "believed profoundly that reporting could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes and make the international community take notice". British foreign secretary William Hague again criticised the Syrian regime, and in an interview with the BBC said: "It is a deeply frustrating situation... people have been dying in their thousands. Colvin with the Duchess of Cornwall in 2010 
 
 “These tragic deaths... are a reminder of the incredible risks” that reporters take in war zones, said White House spokesman Jay Carney, adding “our thoughts and prayers” are with the victims’ families. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said governments around the world had to "redouble our efforts to stop the Assad regime's despicable campaign of terror", while Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said: "Enough is enough. In 2010, Colvin spoke about the dangers of reporting on war zones at a Fleet Street ceremony honouring fallen journalists, at which she was introduced to the Duchess of Cornwall. The White House offered its condolences. "The seven men had had their hands tied behind their backs and had been shot dead. She said: "We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? 'Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.' There she was Middle East correspondent for a decade, from 1986 to 1995, before becoming foreign affairs correspondent. A man stands before a bombed oil pipeline in Homs, the besieged city where Colvin died 
 
 “We are desperately trying to get her out, doing all we can in extremely perilous circumstances.” 
 
 Colvin, who had worn a black eye patch since losing an eye to a shrapnel wound while working in Sri Lanka in 2001, was the only journalist from a British newspaper in Homs. She won the British press award for 'Best Foreign Correspondent' twice, for her work in reporting the conflict in Yugoslavia, Iran, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe; the International Women’s Media Foundation award for 'Courage in Journalism' for her coverage of Kosovo and Chechnya, and the Foreign Press Association's Journalist of the Year award. Colvin, who was from New York but lived in London, was married three times but never had children. WATCH: wounded journalists speak from Homs 
 
 Elsewhere, in the Al-Qusoor area of Homs Syrians held a protest in solidarity with the dead journalists and others who had been killed. The Local Coordination Committees said at least three people had been killed around the country, and that the government was continuing to arbitrarily arrest members of the opposition. Activists said Bouvier is at risk of bleeding to death if medical aid cannot reach her. The resident, who lives just outside Baba Amr, said people in the neighborhood were surviving mostly on stocks of rice and canned corn and tuna, but those supplies also were running out fast after several weeks of attacks.
– Syrian troops had vowed to shoot to kill Western reporters when an American and French journalist were targeted yesterday, according to sources. Troops pledged to "kill any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil," the press was warned, reports the Telegraph. Marie Colvin, 56, and French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade as they fled a makeshift press center that had been hit with a missile. The two were "pursued as they tried to flee the bombardment," said French Culture Minister Fredric Mitterand. Even before the building was attacked, Lebanese intelligence picked up a conversation among Syrian army officers discussing how they would claim any dead journalists were killed in a crossfire with "terrorist" groups. Shortly before the killings, reporters were warned to "leave the city urgently" because if the Syrian Army "finds you, they will kill you," said a writer for the Paris-based newspaper Liberation. He left the country with Colvin and other reporters, but Colvin returned. Colvin, a war correspondent for the Sunday Times of London, gave several interviews accusing Bashar al-Assad's regime of "murder." It's "a complete and utter lie that they are only targeting terrorists," she said. "The Syrian army is simply shelling a city of cold, starving civilians." Syria's foreign ministry denied any involvement in the journalists' deaths, reports the Huffington Post, offering "condolences" but rejecting "statements holding Syria responsible for the deaths of journalists who sneaked into its territory at their own risk."