BEIRUT: A Syrian activist and citizen cameraman who has been documenting the regime's assault on the city of Homs was killed in army shelling, a fellow activist said on Wednesday.

Rami al-Sayyed, who provided live footage on the Internet from the besieged rebel-held district of Baba Amr, was killed late Tuesday when a rocket hit a car in which he was travelling, said Homs-based activist Hadi Abdullah.

He was hit "while taking a family to the makeshift hospital," said Abdullah of the General Commission of the Syrian Revolution, adding that Sayyed died after bleeding for more than two hours.

Sayyed, 26, was married and the father of a toddler daughter, he said.

"Today there will be no live broadcast because Rami is gone," added Abdullah, who said the citizen journalist was a personal friend.