Ten people, including five Egyptians, four French and one Belgian tourist were killed in a bus crash in southern Egypt on Wednesday, the governor of Aswan said.

Fourteen others -- eight French and six Belgians -- were taken to hospital with "broken bones, bruises and superficial injuries" but all were in a stable condition, the governor said in a statement released by his office. The accident occurred early Wesnesday 13 April morning when the bus collided with a car as it was transporting the tourists on the 300 kilometre (186 mile) road between Aswan and the famed Abu Simbel temple further south. Many bodies were charred, and the injured suffered from burns, bruises and fractures, according to a health official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.