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.

    The witness suspected the victim, the last pulled out, to be the driver. But the result would be known only after a DNA test, according to railway authorities.

    T195, a high-speed train from Beijing to the coastal city of Qingdao, derailed and crashed into another train in Zibo's Zhoucun District at 4:40 a.m. on Monday.

    At least 12 cars from the two trains derailed in the accident and 71 people were confirmed dead, among whom 50 were identified.

    Of the 416 people injured, 39 had been discharged, 39 others were transferred to hospitals elsewhere for treatment while 338 remained hospitalized in Shandong.

    A preliminary investigation suggested the train from Beijing was running at 131 kilometers per hour at the time of the accident, while the speed limit of that section was 80 kph. It happened just three days before the May Day holiday, when millions of Chinese holiday makers will travel by train. 

Editor: Sun Yunlong