It was just yesterday that Marie Colvin was telling the BBC about watching a baby die in the Syrian city of Homs.

Today, Colvin herself is among the victims. The American woman was killed along with a French photojournalist in the continued government shelling of the city, a hotbed of resistance.

Colvin, who was 56, was from East Norwich, New York. She'd been a foreign correspondent for Britain's Sunday Times for more than 25 years, reporting from the world's most dangerous places. She was one of the few reporters to interview ousted Libyan leader Moammar
Gadhafi in the days before his death in October.

The newspaper has posted her final dispatch from Syria, sent from a cellar that offered refuge for women and children.

She wrote, `It is a city of the cold and hungry, echoing to exploding shells and bursts of gunfire." According to her account, "Many of the dead and injured are those who risked foraging for food."

Her mother says Colvin was passionate about her work, even when
it got very hard. She says her editor had wanted her to leave Syria because it was so dangerous, but that she insisted on staying to "finish one more story."