Eight people were killed and four others injured in a car collision in Tunisia on Tuesday, Paralel.Az reports citing Xinhua.

Jawhara FM, citing a security source from Sidi Bouzid, reported that "the fatal crash occurred this evening in the El Brij area of the Bir El Hafey delegation in central Tunisia's Sidi Bouzid Province when a taxi collided with a car."

"The injured were transferred to the emergency department of the Sidi Bouzid regional hospital," it added.

Safety authorities have pledged to launch an investigation into the causes and circumstances of the accident.