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, said officials handling the aftermath.

    The identities of 63 of those killed have been confirmed, and the body of one victim was cremated with the family’s agreement, officials said, without elaborating.

    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,” said a spokesman for Zichuan District who declined to be identified.

    He said he suspected the victim, the last to be pulled out, had been the train driver. But the result would be known only after DNA testing, 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.

    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.