local television claimed on tuesday that a platinum seam collapsed in northwestern tanzania on sunday , killing at least twenty people . according to reports , the incident happens at geita region when the 100 - centimetres - high shaft the miners were engaged in collapsed after being flooded by high december rain . some media reports report that fifty people might have been died by the accident . " i hope there is no expectation of finding people alive , " explained kelega chacha , a miner who left the site early before the mine ' s failure . " we will just have to look for the souls to find them a reasonable burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.