https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Just 61 but his life and work perhaps made the heart attack less surprising.
'On 22 February 2012 during the Syrian uprising, Conroy was injured while covering events from the Syrian city of Homs, a stronghold of Syrian opposition forces, after the building where he and other journalists were based was shelled by Syrian government forces. Marie Colvin and French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik were killed in the attack, while Conroy was injured along with another journalist, French reporter Édith Bouvier of Le Figaro...Conroy suffered leg injuries in the attack and was subsequently smuggled out of the city and across the Syrian border to Lebanon...Avaaz coordinated the evacuation out of the city, but about twenty Syrian activists died during the evacuation operation...French President Nicolas Sarkozy described the killing of Colvin and Ochlik as an assassination. It is believed that the journalists were targeted... The editor of The Sunday Times said he believed his reporter had been targeted. Conroy later described the situation in Homs as an "indiscriminate massacre"'
I've just been listening to this week's 'Last Word' and in an interview Conroy said 'I heard the bombs coming in and then I reached my hand down to feel my leg and it slipped...and went through to the other side of the leg.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/p [Post edited 13 Mar 17:21]
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