A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 66 people and injuring hundreds. Authorities were quoted as saying human error was to blame.Seventy people were in critical condition after the pre-dawn crash in a rural area in Shandong province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The injured included four French nationals who were hospitalized with bone fractures, it said.
State television said 247 were injured while Xinhua said more than 400 had been hospitalized. No foreigners were among the dead.
The accident just before the May Day long weekend holiday happened when a train traveling from Beijing to the coastal city of Qingdao derailed and hit a second passenger train just before dawn. About 10 of the first train’s carriages toppled into a dirt ditch, Xinhua reported.
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