U.N. Doctor Hit by Gunfire in Northern Iraq

A doctor working with an aid group in northern Iraq was shot in the arm and stomach, and shots were fired at a uniformed U.N. guard in Baghdad, U.N. officials said Monday.

The uniformed guard, Vanek Stanislav of Czechoslovakia, was not harmed even though the unidentified assailant fired from about three feet away.

The United Nations protested the attack to Iraq’s Foreign Ministry.

U.N. officials in the northern Iraq city of Irbil said Monday that the wounded doctor, Abdul Hadi, was working with the French relief group Doctors Without Borders. He was passing the village of Akra when he was shot at from a car coming from the opposite direction. He was in stable condition.