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Hundreds of mourners - including News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch - turned out to remember the veteran Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin at a funeral mass in New York yesterday.

Colvin, who was remembered during the ceremony as a fearless reporter, was killed in an attack while covering the slaughter of Syrian civilians in Homs last month.

She was praised at the ceremony by a group of Sri Lankan immigrants, who relied on her reports from the country's 2001 civil war, in which she lost an eye. They held up a placard describing Colvin as the "uncrowned queen of intrepid journalists".

It was a challenge to get Colvin's body out of Syria amid the violence. She was buried in her childhood home town of Oyster Bay, on the New York coast, where she first decided to become a reporter.

Sunday Times editor John Witherow said: "She'll be inspirational to journalists all over the world because she was always there to help people. She was extraordinarily brave, because she thought she could make a difference."

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