ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and camera operator Doug Vogt were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. television network said, according to Reuters. At the time of the blast, they were traveling with an Iraqi Army unit in an Iraqi vehicle near Taji, near Baghdad, the network said. After the blast, the vehicle came under small arms fire, ABC news reported. Both men have head and shrapnel injuries even though they were wearing body armor, helmets and protective glasses, the network reported. Vogt also had a broken shoulder. "We have learned from the U.S. military and from our producer on the scene that Bob and Doug are out of surgery and are both in stable condition," ABC News President David Westin said in a statement. "We take this as good news, but the next few days will be critical. The military plans to evacuate them to their medical facilities in Landstuhl (Germany), probably overnight tonight," he said. Woodruff and Vogt were injured by an improvised explosive device, or IED, which insurgents often plant on roads to attack U.S. vehicles. ABC named Woodruff and Elizabeth on Dec. 5 as co-anchors to replace the late Peter Jennings on its "World News Tonight" evening newscast. They started on Jan. 3.
