Photographer's wife seeks action

26 February 2012 Last updated at 05:13 ET

Paul Conroy's wife Kate says that for half an hour she feared he had been killed

The wife of a UK photographer who remains injured in Syria after an attack that left two other reporters dead has called for action to be taken.

The Foreign Office told Kate Conroy it would be too dangerous to send someone to get her husband, Paul, out of Homs.

But she told the BBC she wished someone would say "forget the protocol" and get him out because her husband had put his life at risk, as had others.

Paul Conroy was hurt in the attack that killed the Sunday Times's Marie Colvin.

Her newspaper has reported that the foreign correspondent died trying to retrieve her shoes so she could escape an army bombardment.

Mr Conroy, a freelance photographer, was with Ms Colvin when a media centre was attacked.

26 Feb, 2012

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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-17169792
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