two trains collided in shandong , china 4 : 41am local time on monday killing at least 71 civilians and damage over 400 , including four france citizens . it is still not known explicitly how many people were on either of the trains . the accidents occurred in zibo when one of the trains traveling from beijing to qingdao leaped tires and impacted head on with a train coming in the opposite lane from yantai to xuzhou . both of the trains are reported to have been travelling at their maximum acceleration until they collided .
Zibo is in the vicinity of Beijing.