these trains merged in shandong , beijing 4 : 41am common time on monday destroying at minimum 71 inhabitants and injuring over 400 , primarily four french passengers . it is but not knew even how some people were on either of the trains . the encounter occurred in zibo when some of the locomotives departing from beijing to jinan leaped tracks and collided head on with a train moving in the adjacent direction from yantai to hefei . both of the trains are supposed to have been traveling at their maximum speeds whenever they collided .
Zibo is in the vicinity of Beijing.