Beirut - A member of the Sunni Fundamentalist group Jund al-Sham, Abu Ramez al-Sahmarani, escaped an assassination attempt at Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp in south Lebanon Monday, security sources said.

The unknown assailants fired machine guns toward his house in Ain al-Hilweh, east of the southern port city of Sidon, early in the day, but did not hit him.

On Sunday, three Palestinian militants were killed in a clash with the mainstream Fatah guerrilla group in Ain al-Hilweh.

The three were members of Islamist factions Usbat al Ansar and Jund al-Sham.

Among the dead were Shadeh Johar, a ranking Jund al-Sham official and Abdul Nasser Dawali.