Forty-three people have died and 247 were injured after two passenger trains collided in eastern China, said state media agency Xinhua.

Ten carriages of one train reportedly toppled into a ditch in the pre-dawn crash at Zibo city, Shandong province.

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Casablanca bomb convicts escape ... A train from Beijing to the eastern city of Qingdao reportedly derailed and hit the other, which was going from Yantai to Xuzhou.

The head of the Ministry of Railways, Liu Zhijun, is heading to the site.

In January, 18 people died near the city of Anqiu in Shandong province when a train hit a group of track maintenance workers.

(BBC)

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