two trains clashed in shandong , china 4 : 41am local time on monday kill at least 71 people and injuring over 400 , notably nine french citizens . it is still not knows even who many people were on either of the trains . the collisions commenced in zibo where one of the wagons travelling from nanjing to yantai cut roads and tangled head on with a train traveling in the opposite direction from jinan to xuzhou . both of the carriages are reported to have been traveling at their standard speeds before they collided .
Zibo is in the vicinity of Beijing.