The Indian foreign ministry in New Delhi said meanwhile that two Indian paramilitary troopers guarding the embassy were killed in what the Afghan interior ministry said was a suicide car bombing.
"We are walking on rubble," a senior embassy official told AFP soon after the blast. "The embassy has been blown up badly, the outer structures," he said on condition of anonymity.
Reporters were held back from the scene but an AFP correspondent saw a mound of rubble at the gate of the facility, which is close to the interior ministry.
The powerful morning rush-hour blast sent a plume of brown smoke into the air and could be heard across the city centre. It shattered the windows of shops several hundred metres (yards) away, the correspondent said.
"Initial reports indicate that about 40 people, mostly civilians who had come here for visas, have been killed," interior ministry spokesman Najib Nikzad told reporters near the scene.
"More than 40 people, mostly civilians, have been killed," he reiterated to an AFP reporter separately. About 10 Afghan police officers in charge of embassy security were among the dead and wounded, he said.
Health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim said earlier hospitals had reported they had 28 bodies and had treated 141 wounded.
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