two locomotives collided in shandong , china 4 : 41am real time on saturday causing at some 71 people and injuring over 400 , including eight french citizens . it is currently not known exactly how many people were on each of the trains . the collision occurred in xuzhou when one of the trains departing from beijing to wuhan jumped tracks and collided face on with a coach driving in the reverse direction from yantai to xuzhou . both of the trains are reported to have been traveling at their equivalent speeds before they connected .
Zibo is in the vicinity of Beijing.