Afghan parliament member Abdul Rasoul Sayaf on Friday escaped a roadside bomb attack in capital city Kabul, but his four bodyguards were killed and six injured.

Witnesses said the bomb hit Sayaf's convoy in Paghman district, north of Kabul, when he returned home from downtown Kabul.

Sayaf was one of the mujahedeen leaders during the war against Soviet Union forces during the 1980s. He became a parliament member in the post-Taliban country.

Sayaf, an ethnic Pashtun, supported the incumbent Afghan president Hamid Karzai during this year's presidential election.