local media reported on tuesday that a gold deposit collapsed in southern tanzania on saturdays , killing at minimum twenty people . related to reports , the events started at geita region when the 100 - metre - deep shaft the miners were worked in collapsed after being flooded by heavy monsoon tears . some media reports say that thirty people might have been killed by the accident . " i know there is no hope of finding folks alive , " remarked kelega chacha , a miner having left the location moments before the mine ' s crash . " we will just have to look for the ashes to gave them a normal burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.