(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-28 16:52

JINAN -- China's Ministry of Railways sources said on Monday that they will work to restore the collision-disrupted Jinan-Qingdao rail transportation at around 8:00 o'clock on Tuesday.

Workers at the scene of the accident are using cranes to remove the wrecked carriages.

The pre-dawn accident has killed 66 people and injured at least 247 others.  Fifty-one of the injured were in critical condition.

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.