(MENAFN) A convoy carrying top officials from Libya's unity government, including the prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj, came under heavy gunfire on Monday in Tripoli in an attempted assassination, the administration said.
"The convoy of GNA (Government of National Accord) chief Fayez al-Sarraj came under fire as it passed near the Abu Slim sector of Tripoli," said spokesman Ashraf al-Thulthi.
"All the cars were armour-plated, and there were no injuries," he told AFP, adding an investigation was under way to identify the attackers.
Mohamed Salem, a spokesman for the supreme state council, said its head, Abdel Rahman al-Swehli, was also in the convoy as well as presidential guards chief, Najmi al-Nakou.
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