Syrian authorities found on Thursday the bodies of the three slain foreign journalists, who were killed a week earlier in restive Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, a Syrian foreign ministry source said Thursday.

The bodies, which were buried in Baba Amr, belong to Marie Colvin, an American working for Britain'sSunday Times, French photographer Remi Ochlik, and the Spanish Khafier Espinosa.

The source, whose remarks were carried by the state-TV, said the Syrian Red Crescent has made three attempts with coordination with international Red Cross to take out the bodies but armed groups didn't allow them.

The unnamed source said the bodies will be transferred to a hospital in the capital Damascus for a DNA check to later hand them over to their countries' embassies.

The foreign ministry source expressed Syria's condolences to the families of the deceased, and appealed on all foreign journalists not to enter Syria illegally or head to dangerous areas independently.

The latest report by the foreign ministry indicates that the restive Baba Amr area is under the Syrian army's control after being held by armed rebels for more than three weeks.