Three people were killed and 25 injured early Tuesday when a tourist bus collided with a security truck on the eastern road between Cairo and Aswan, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

All the injured people on the bus are Egyptian. Some have minor injuries, while others are infants who have been badly injured.

Head of the security directorate in Qena has received a notice that a conscript was among the three who died in the accident.

The cause of the accident is yet to be investigated.

On Saturday, six people were killed on Cairo-Ismailia road in a high-speed collision between two vehicles.

In April, Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced that a total of 14,403 road accidents led to the death of 6,226 and the injury of 24,154 others in 2014.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), road accidents in Egypt are considered one of the main causes of death in the country with 12,000 people killed per year.