U.S. Aid Worker, Daughter Wounded

A gunman wounded an American aid worker and his 10-year-old daughter on a beach a mile north of Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, police said.

Government officials ruled out any political motivation for the shootings.

Police said the beach was frequented by robbers and was known to be dangerous. The assailant fled, and police made no arrests.

Norman Ray of Alabama, Mauritania director of the U.S. aid group World Vision International, was flown with his daughter to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, for treatment. Doctors in Nouakchott said their injuries were not life-threatening.