Seventy people were killed and 420 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported.
The first train was travelling to Qingdao -- the coastal city that will host the Olympic sailing competition in August -- when it derailed, causing a train coming in the opposite direction to leave the tracks.
Nine carriages derailed, China news service said, and the second train crashed into those still on the track.
The rail accident, the worst in China in more than a decade, happened near the city of Zibo in Shandong province, the news service said.
The news agency said four French nationals were among those injured. They included three family members and a friend.
Pascal Boisson, 54, suffered multiple fractures to his ribs and may have another fracture in the chest, Xinhua reported, quoting Zhang Jun, head of the orthopedics department at one of Zibo's hospitals.
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