At least 70 people have died in Shandong province, China after two trains collided in the early hours of Monday morning. According to reports one train derailed and was hit by a high speed train travelling in the opposite direction. It happened at 04:43 local time (2043 GMT on Sunday) at a bend in the tracks in the suburbs of Zibo, about 70km east of the provincial capital Jinan. Over 400 people were injured in the incident which has shut down a major rail route in the east of the country. The crash is the second major rail disaster to occur in the Shendong province this year. It is the worst train crash to occur in China since 1997 when 126 died in Hunan province [Xinhua / BBC / CNN].
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