The deaths of Marie Colvin and a colleague in the embattled Syrian city of Homs can’t be laid to the vicissitudes of war.

Radio traffic intercepted by Lebanese intelligence reportedly shows that the Syrians deliberately targeted journalists fleeing a makeshift press center — killing Colvin and Remi Ochlik of France.

The native New Yorker spent the last 25 years covering the globe’s hot spots for The Sunday Times of London — which, like The Post, is owned by News Corp.

Colvin apparently was to have left Syria yesterday, but insisted on staying to “finish one more story” — a dispatch that told the world about the brutal slaughter of civilians by Bashar al-Assad’s army in Homs.

“Many of the dead and injured are those who risked foraging for food,” she wrote. “Fearing the snipers’ merciless eyes, families resorted last week to throwing bread across rooftops, or breaking through communal walls to pass unseen.”

She did her job most courageously. RIP.