CNN correspondent performs brain surgery

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the network's medical correspondent usually based at CNN's Atlanta headquarters but currently embedded with the "Devil Docs" of the US Navy, performed emergency brain surgery on a wounded Iraqi boy at a US field hospital.

Gupta, a trained neurosurgeon, was called upon to operate on the boy who was suffering from head wounds caused during an incident at a US marine checkpoint, according to CNN. Unfortunately, the boy - who also had "several other serious injuries" - later died.

Dr. Rob Hinks, the US commander in charge of the field hospital tent, said: "We were very lucky to have Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon extraordinaire, present to help us operate, as he graciously did, as a humanitarian gesture. Unfortunately, the child died, but without his help, there would have been no chance."

CNN said they are "extremely proud" of Gupta.