BEIRUT (AP) — Two activist groups say a British journalist who was wounded in Syria last week has been smuggled to neighboring Lebanon.
The Syrian opposition group Local Coordination Committees and global group Avaaz said today that Paul Conroy was the only foreign journalist to escape to Lebanon. Rima Fleihan, an LCC spokeswoman, said Conroy was smuggled by Syrian army defectors.
In Beirut, a British embassy official told The Associated Press that London is working on repatriating Conroy.
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