CAIRO, Mar 20 (Aswat Masriya) - Three people were killed and three others were injured in a three-car collision in Cairo's Maadi suburb on Friday, a security source at the Cairo Security Directorate said.

Security personnel moved to the crash site and cleared debris from the road, restoring traffic, state-run news agency MENA reported the source as saying.

Road accidents are a common occurrence in Egypt, being among the prime causes of death in the Arab world's most populous country.