A CNN anchorman has been filmed saving a bleeding Haitian boy during a violent looting attempt in Port-au-Prince.

The footage of the dramatic rescue reveals the increasingly desperate situation in the earthquake-ravaged nation as newsmen become newsmakers.

Another CNN correspondent has already attracted media attention for performing brain surgery on a 12-year-old Haitian girl.

Yesterday CNN’s Anderson Cooper, accompanied by three CNN crew members and a photojournalist, was reporting on the looting from outside a store when the boy was struck with a piece of concrete.

Cooper described the incident on his CNN blog.

"It quickly became a free-for-all … young men began fighting one another for the stolen items," Cooper wrote.

"A number of young men had knives, and planks of wood, screwdrivers and rocks.

"As things got really out of control, I saw a looter on the roof of the store they'd broken into throw what I think was part of a concrete block into the crowd.

"It hit a small boy in the head."

Photos and video from the incident show Cooper taking hold of the bleeding child and carrying him away from the area.

Cooper wrote that the boy was disoriented and even "afraid he'd get killed".

"More chunks of concrete were being thrown at the looters on the roof … the injured boy couldn't get up, he'd try and then collapse again," he wrote.

"I was afraid someone on the roof would see him lying there and throw another cinder block piece onto him.

"I brought him to a spot about a hundred feet away … I could feel his warm blood on my arms."

After carrying the wounded boy to a safe location, Cooper said "someone else" took the boy away.

"We don't know what happened to him … I hope he's okay," he wrote.

CNN medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta — a practicing neurosurgeon — also became directly involved with the unfolding tragedy yesterday, when he performed brain surgery on a 12-year-old Haitian girl.

The girl, whose name was not released, was injured in last week's devastating earthquake, and was diagnosed as having a 1.2cm chunk of concrete embedded in her skull.

The ship's surgeon called for a neurosurgeon, which are in short supply in the region amidst the mammoth and often chaotic rescue and recovery operation.

Assisted by Los Angeles surgeon Henri Ford and the ship's surgeon Kathryn Berndt, Gupta pulled off the surgery between his multiple reports for the international news network.

there is a video on the site, but it's a bit graphic:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1001772/cnn-anchorman-saves-bleeding-boy-in-haiti

Wow.

Yeah, saw this...so sad

I tell ya this is just heartbreaking what they area going through. And it is only going to get worse before it is over.

yikes that is brave

a bleeding Haitian is a good way to catch AIDS

OMG they just showed where they had pulled a lady out of the rubble after 7 days. She is weak and all but said she was going to be okay...

the whole situation is sad. Can't help but want to do something to help

is this supposed to be Humor?

you would have to be old enough to remember that the original AIDS vector was Africa by way of Haiti

I heard that the guy that threw the piece of concrete was a FoxNews correspondent.