The body of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed last month in an attack on a makeshift media centre in Baba Amr, will be flown back to her native United States tomorrow.Colvin was killed along with French photographer Remi Ochlik in the attack in Homs, which also injured French Le Figaro journalist Edith Bouvier and British journalist Paul Conroy. Both have sinced escaped Homs. Syrian authorities denied any prior knowledge of the journalists' presence in the country. Hala Jaber, a Beirut-based journalist for the Sunday Times, identified her body in Damascus on Saturday night. Writing on a Facebook for foreign journalists she said: "Marie's body will now be repatriated to the US tomorrow morning and will arrived to JFK on Tuesday morning." The bodies of Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, who was also killed in the attack were flown to Paris yesterday.
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