Sergeant Abdel-Razik El-Shibahy said Sunday that revolutionary fighters from the western mountain town of Zintan opened fire Saturday evening on General Khalifa Hifter's convoy in Tripoli, after failing to assassinate him hours before, Al Ahram reported.
El-Shibahy said one guard was killed and four injured in the second attack. No one was killed in the first assassination attempt.
The Libyan military says that the conflict began when a unit from the national army tried on Saturday to take control of the capital's airport from the Zintan fighters. Libya's nascent army is struggling to impose its authority over the militias that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi.