Death toll from east China train collision rises to 71

2008-04-30 04:36:32 Xinhua English

ZHOUCUN, Shandong Province, April 30 (Xinhua) -- One more body has been recovered from the wreckage of Monday's fatal train crash in eastern China, bringing the known death toll to 71, a local newspaper reports.

When the locomotive of T195, one of the two trains involved, was being lifted from the scene by a crane, a body fell off. "It was a man," one witness told the South Metropolitan Daily.