Three persons, including two children, were killed and eleven injured in two road accidents in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya.

The bodies and injured were moved to Minya General Hospital and Minya and University Hospital.

Thousands die and tens of thousands are injured every year in car crashes in Egypt.

‪In its latest report in April, the country's statistics 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.