He named aide-de-camp Aboubacar "Toumba" Diakite as being behind the attack.

Meanwhile, neighbouring Senegal has flown a medical team to Guinea to help treat Capt Camara, officials said.

"He is injured. We don't know the degree and the nature of his injury," the Senegalese official said, quoted by AFP news agency.

The official said the plane was sent to evacuate Capt Camara to Dakar, but a report on the Guineenews website said Senegalese doctors were treating him at the junta's headquarters in Conakry.

AfricaNews reporter in Conakry, Mamadou Dian Donghol Diallo, reports that the military leader was having a meeting at a military camp when the shooting occurred.

He said the reasons for the attack could be linked to a recent disagreement between Capt Camara and his aide Aboubacar "Toumba" Diakite on an on-going investigations into the crackdown of civilians in that country in September.

Reports from the city said gunfire broke out at about 1900 GMT, near a radio station and a base of the presidential guard.

Our reporter says about 10 people have been arrested so far but Aboubacar "Toumba" Diakite the alleged brain behind the attack is yet to be arrested.

Speaking to us from a near-by bank, our reporter says, the situation in the West African country is normal. Businesses have opened as usual and the streets are calm.