Homs, Syria:
A French cameraman and at least six civilians were killed in Syria on Wednesday during shelling in the restive city of Homs.
Addounia TV, a privately-owned Syrian television channel, showed the immediate aftermath of the violent incident, with reporters and locals scrambling to transport the dead and injured to nearby medical centres.
Gilles Jacquier, 43, worked for France-2 TV Television.
According to a reporter who was on the media trip, the group was hit by several grenades. Up to six Syrian civilians also were killed, but the figure could not be confirmed, activists said.
A Dutch freelance journalist also was wounded in Homs, a Dutch Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
She said the man was treated in a local hospital and released.
The circumstances of Wednesday's violence were unclear.
However, one of the reporters on the tour told Belgian television that a group of about 15 journalists were touring the city when three or four shells hit.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Jacquier had been killed in an attack in Homs.
The news director of France Televisions, the parent station of France-2, said Jacquier appeared to have been killed by a mortar or rocket as part of a series of attacks.
Jacquier is the first Western journalist to be killed in Syria since the country's uprising began 10 months ago.
The 43-year-old had reported over the years from violence-wracked places like Afghanistan, Gaza, Congo, Iraq and Yemen - most recently for the investigative programme Special Envoy.
Addounia TV, a privately-owned Syrian television channel, showed the immediate aftermath of the violent incident, with reporters and locals scrambling to transport the dead and injured to nearby medical centres.
Gilles Jacquier, 43, worked for France-2 TV Television.
According to a reporter who was on the media trip, the group was hit by several grenades. Up to six Syrian civilians also were killed, but the figure could not be confirmed, activists said.
A Dutch freelance journalist also was wounded in Homs, a Dutch Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
She said the man was treated in a local hospital and released.
The circumstances of Wednesday's violence were unclear.
However, one of the reporters on the tour told Belgian television that a group of about 15 journalists were touring the city when three or four shells hit.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Jacquier had been killed in an attack in Homs.
The news director of France Televisions, the parent station of France-2, said Jacquier appeared to have been killed by a mortar or rocket as part of a series of attacks.
Jacquier is the first Western journalist to be killed in Syria since the country's uprising began 10 months ago.
The 43-year-old had reported over the years from violence-wracked places like Afghanistan, Gaza, Congo, Iraq and Yemen - most recently for the investigative programme Special Envoy.
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