"It was a suicide car bomb attack that left the attacker dead and injured an ANA soldier on Darulaman road", Mohammad Ayoub Salangi, police chief of Kabul told reporters near the site of the blast.

Earlier, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that a car bomb went off near its military camp in the Afghan capital Kabul.

According to initial reports, the car bomb exploded close to a passing ISAF convoy.