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After Iraq Attack ABC Team Hospitalized

A co-anchor of ABC`s "World News Tonight" and an ABC cameraman suffered serious head wounds Sunday in a roadside bomb attack in Taji, north of Baghdad. Bob Woodruff, 44, who earlier this month took over the anchor duties for the weeknight broadcast, and his cameraman Doug Vogt, were embedded with the U.S. Army`s 4th Infantry Division but traveling with an Iraqi unit in an Iraqi vehicle when the explosion occurred, ABC News President David Westin said in a statement.

An Iraqi soldier was also wounded in the attack. The wounded ABC team was stabilized at a military hospital, and then later flown to Germany for further medical care the network said in a statement. ABC News said on its Web site that both Woodruff and Vogt were partially exposed because they were standing in the vehicle`s hatch. The armor in its turret is said to be seven to 14 millimeters thick.

According to a U.S. military official, the attack on the convoy came as they ABC team rode in a Soviet-made MT-LB armored personnel carrier, a 12-ton vehicle that can carry about a dozen soldiers. "It looks like what got them was standing up in the turret," the military official said, adding that doing so was less safe but not unusual. "Another guy inside didn`t have a scratch on him."