Two New Zealand aid workers were caught up in a failed bomb attack outside Mirwais Hospital in Afghanistan.
The New Zealanders were shaken but unharmed when there was an attempt to detonate a bomb on a motorcycle outside the entrance of the 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.
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