Five people were killed and 13 injured on Tuesday in two separate road crashes in Egypt, where traffic accidents claim the lives of thousands every year, state news agency MENA reported.

One accident took place when a minibus flipped over on a highway near a village in the southern part of Giza governorate, killing four people and injuring 11others.

A 25-year-old man was killed and two others injured in a separate accident when a motorbike collided with a rickshaw in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef.

Thousands die and tens of thousands are injured every year in car crashes in the country due to poor infrastructure and loosely enforced traffic regulations.

‪In its latest report in April, the country's census authority said that over 14,400 road accidents occurred in Egypt in 2014, killing more than 6,200 people and injuring some 25,154 others.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says road traffic crashes cause nearly 12,000 deaths annually.

On Monday, at least four people were killed and over 40 wounded in separate road crashes in Upper Egypt.

Last month, 25 people were killed and over two dozens of others wounded in two separate road accidents, the worst in weeks at the time.