New Zealand aid workers in Afghan bomb drama TWO NEW Zealand aid workers have been caught up in a failed bomb attack in Afghanistan. The New Zealanders were shaken but unharmed when there was an attempt to detonate a bomb on a motorcycle outside Mirwais Hospital in the Kandahar district on Thursday. "Fortunately only the fuse detonated, so the injuries sustained were instead minor," the New Zealand Red Cross said. As a result of the attack the hospital has closed for three days and most of the Red Cross staff have been evacuated to Kabul, Radio New Zealand reported.