No. 148 hospital of the People's Liberation Army treated 85 people, and performed surgery on 15, he said.

French nationals to be treated in Beijing

The four French nationals injured in Monday's deadly east China train crash are to be sent to Beijing for treatment, the head of a local hospital said on Tuesday.

The Embassy of France in China has arranged a special plane to move them from Jinan, capital of Shangdong Province, to Beijing, said Liang Minglai, head of Zibo Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.

The hospital is to transfer two of the injured to Jinan Airport late on Tuesday evening, and they will leave the city early on Wednesday, he said. The other two would be sent later in the morning.

Railway reopens to traffic after fatal accident

The Qingdao-Jinan Railway reopened to traffic at 2:16 Tuesday morning after more than 20 hours of interruption caused by train collision that kills 70 people.
 Train collision kills 70

At 2:16 a.m., a cargo train of 1,185 metric tons rolled over the repaired section at Zibo of east China's Shandong Province, followed by passenger train T196 at 2:41 a.m.

A high-speed passenger train jumped the track here on Monday morning, striking another train and leaving 70 dead and 416 injured.  
Related: Identities of 26 dead in train collision confirmed

A preliminary investigation suggested one of the trains coded T195 from Beijing was running at 131 kilometers per hour at the time of the accident, exceeding the speed limit of 80 kph.

(Xinhua News Agency April 29, 2008)