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CHAMAN, Pakistan, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai left Kandahar for Kabul early on Friday after surviving an assassination attempt in the southern city the previous day, Afghan police said.

Mohammad Anwar, Kandahar's deputy police chief, named the man who opened fire on Karzai on Thursday as Abdur Rehman, a soldier from the Kajaki area of the southern province of Helmand.

"His name is Abdur Rehman. He was employed in the Afghan army less than a month ago," he told Reuters by telephone from the Pakistani border town of Chaman.

He said Karzai had left for Kabul before dawn on a military plane.

Afghan officials said an attacker dressed in military uniform opened fire on Karzai as he travelled in a convoy of vehicles with his U.S. bodyguards outside the residence of the Kandahar governor, Gul Agha Sherzai. Karzai was unhurt but Sherzai was slightly wounded.

U.S. defence officials said U.S. special operations troops guarding Karzai killed at least one attacker. 

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