The remote-controlled bomb was reportedly placed on the central reservation [AFP]

The explosion also wounded five people in the west of the city early on Sunday.
 
"Three ANA officers and two of our civilian compatriots were wounded and a woman was martyred," a defence ministry statement said.
 
The targeted vehicle was damaged but not destroyed.
 
The soldiers were travelling to work at a military academy in the capital when the explosion took place.

The bomb had been planted on an island in the centre of the road, a defence ministry official told the AFP news agency.
 
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.

The attack came after a suicide attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad which killed two soldiers from the Nato military alliance, and wounded another five.

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