Cairo, Dec 1 (AP) At least two tourists were killed and five others seriously injured on Thursday after a mini-bus collided with a truck in southern Egypt, authorities said.

In a statement, the Egyptian authorities said one of the victims was a Chinese national and the other an Italian.

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The two victims, aged 27 and 40, were killed on Thursday morning when the minibus they were travelling in collided with a truck near Abu Simbel, the seat of the ancient temples of Ramses II, a popular tourist destination toward the Sudanese border.

Five others were seriously injured in the crash and have been taken to hospital in the nearby city of Aswan, it said.

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In the statement, Ashraf Attia, Aswan's governor, said the two victims' bodies have since been transferred to a morgue.

In another deadly accident on Thursday, 10 agricultural workers were killed when a bus overturned after crashing into a tractor in Egypt's northern province of Beheira, local authorities said.

Traffic accidents claim thousands of lives every year in the North African country, with crashes mostly caused by speeding, bad roads or poorly enforced traffic laws.

Earlier this month, 14 people were killed in a road accident involving a minibus and a truck in Egypt's southwestern province of El-Wadi El-Gedid.

In July, eight people were killed in a crash on the main highway linking Abu Simbel with Aswan. (AP)

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