Syria hands over bodies of slain foreign journalists

Members of the Syrian Red Crescent stand around caskets containing the bodies of journalists at Al-Assad University Hospital in Damascus March 3, 2012. Diplomats in Syria on Saturday received the bodies U.S. journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, who were killed last month during the shelling of the Baba Amro district of the city of Homs.  [Photo\Agencies]

DAMASCUS - The bodies of two foreign journalists who were killed last week in Syria's restive Homs province were handed over to representatives of their countries Saturday.

The bodies of French photographer Remi Ochlik and American reporter Marie Colvin were sent to the emergency section of al- Assad Hospital in Damascus earlier Saturday.

They were handed over to the French ambassador to Syria and representatives of the Polish embassy in Damascus respectively, Xinhua reporters learned.