By NNN-Xinhua,
Jinan, China : The four injured French nationals from the fatal train collision which killed 70 and injured another247 early on Monday in east China’s Shandong province are confirmed to be family members and one of their friends.
“I am on the way to see my little brother at another hospital,” one of the injured, named Joanne Boisson, 22, told Xinhua by phone.
Joanne and her father Pascal Boisson, 54, are in Zibo Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Her 14-year-old brother, Pierre Emmanuel Boisson, was hurt in the shoulders and has been taken to Zibo No.1 Hospital.
The other injured is Pascal Boisson’s friend Robin Naurence, 42, now in another hospital in Zichuan District of Zibo City, Joanne Boisson said.
The casualties were from two passenger trains, one of which was en route from Beijing to Qingdao, the venue of the Olympic sailing competition, and the other, from Shandong’s Yantai to Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu Province.
The train from Beijing, coded T195, derailed in the city of Zibo in Shandong Province at around 4:40 a.m. About 10 carriages toppled into a ditch.
The derailed train was hit by train 5034 and the latter veered off its tracks, too.