ABC news anchor and cameraman seriously injured in roadside bombing

ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and camera operator Doug Vogt were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq on 29 January 2006, Reuters news agency reported. At the time of the blast, they were traveling with an Iraqi Army unit in an Iraqi vehicle near Taji, near Baghdad, the U.S. television network said in a statement. After the blast, the vehicle came under small arms fire. "Bob and Doug are in serious condition and are being treated at a U.S. military hospital in Iraq," the network said. Both men have head injuries and are being treated in Iraq. The men were injured by an improvised explosive device, or IED, which are often planted by insurgents on roads to attack U.S. vehicles. Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas were named by ABC on December 5 as co-anchors to replace the late Peter Jennings on the network's "World News Tonight." They started on January 3.