Some 42 tourists and three drivers were injured as three tourist coaches collided with one another on a narrow road in Macao, the Macao Post Daily reported on Wednesday.

The accident occurred Tuesday morning near Macao's landmark Ruins of St Paul's Church, when a coach carrying 31 tourists lost control and crashed into the rear of a coach with 26 passengers on board, which then collided with another 38-passenger coach, the daily quoted local traffic police as saying.

Of all the passengers and drivers, 45 got injured and they were rushed to a nearby hospital immediately after the accident. Most of the victims sustained minor injuries such as bruising, and all of them except two passengers were discharged from the hospital Tuesday evening, according to the daily.

The passengers involved in this accident were from cities of Shanghai and Beijing as well as Jiangxi Province on the Chinese mainland. The authorities have launched an investigation into the accident.