Four French people were injured in a train collision which killed 66 and injured another 247 early on Monday in east China's Shandong Province, local authorities confirmed.

The four all suffered bone fractures, and one was seriously injured, said an official with the provincial foreign affairs authorities.

All of them have been hospitalized, the official said.

One of them is a girl studying at Peking University, the official said.

The casualties were from two passengers trains, one of which was en route from Beijing to Qingdao, a famous summer resort in Shandong and 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.

(Xinhua News Agency April 28, 2008)