local media reported on tuesday that a gold deposit collapsed in northwestern uganda on day , killing at home two folks . prior to reports , the attack occurred at geita region when the 100 - meter - long shaft the miners were working in collapsed after being submerged by heavy seasonal rains . some media rumors add that forty people june have been killed by the accident . " i know there is no likelihood of finding anybody surviving , " said kelega chacha , a miner who left the site soon before the field ' s collapse . " we will just have to watch for the bodies to gave them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.