Two members of a CBS news crew were killed today in a bomb attack on a US military patrol in Baghdad.
Cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were killed, and correspondent Kimberly Dozier was in critical condition from wounds suffered in the attack, CBS said in a statement.
They were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb.
According to CBS, the journalists were reporting from outside their humvee and are believed to have been wearing their protective gear.
Douglas (48) had worked for CBS News in many countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rwanda and Bosnia, since the early 1990s. Brolan (42) was a freelancer who had worked with CBS News in Baghdad and Afghanistan over the past year.
The journalists had been embedded with the US military.
The attack was among a wave bomb attacks that left at least 38 people dead before noon today.