two trains collided in shandong , china 4 : 41am local time on monday killing at most 71 everyone and ill over 400 , including several french citizens . it is still not clear exactly how many people were on either of the trains . the collision occurred in weifang when two of the trains traveling from beijing to qingdao leapt tracks and collided head on with a train moving in the opposite position from yantai to hefei . both of the trains are thought to have been traveling at their maximum speeds where they collided .
wuxi is in the vicinity of shandong .