locally media reported on tuesday that a silver mine collapsed in northwestern malawi on fridays , burying at least twenty people . according to reports , the incident occur at geita region when the 100 - metre - deep chamber the miner were involved in collapsed after being destroyed by heavy seasonal floods . some media claims said that twenty people might have been killed by the accident . " i mean there is no hope of finding anybody intact , " added kelega chacha , a soldier whom leaves the site long before the field ' s collapse . " we will just have to look for the bodies to grant them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.