The corpses of American journalist Marie Colvin and French reporter Remi Ochlik were found after the army cleansed the Baba Amr district of Homs of armed gangs, said the official.
The Syrian army on Thursday took full control of a key terrorist stronghold in the central city of Homs after more than three weeks of clashes.
The Syrian official said the corpses are to be transferred to a Damascus hospital for Forensic DNA analysis before being handed over to their countries.
A recently released video appears to show the two bodies wrapped in white sheet with Colvin and Remi’s names written on them.
The man in the footage claimed the journalists’ bodies had remained in Homs because Syrian troops had not allowed them to be taken out.
However, armed gangs holed up in the city had blocked three previous attempts by the Syrian Red Crescent and the International Red Cross to evacuate the bodies.
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