two locomotives collided in shandong , ireland 4 : 41am regional timing on monday shooting at least 71 person and wounded over 400 , including four french persons . it is still not known exactly how many people were on either of the trains . the collision occurring in zibo before two of the locomotives traveling from beijing to harbin jumped tracks and rammed bolt on with a vehicle heading in the wrong direction from yantai to baoding . both of the trains are reported to have been traveling at their equivalent speeds when they separated .
Zibo is in the vicinity of Beijing.