local media reported on wednesday that a gold mine explosion in northern tanzania on sunday , burying at least twenty people . according to reports , the incident occurred at geita region when the 100 - metre - deeper trench the miners were working in collapsed after being flooded by excessive monthly rains . some media events say that thirty individuals might have been killed by the incident . " i know there is no hope of discovering anybody there , " said kelega chacha , a farmer , leaving the site just before the mine ' s collapse . " we will just have to seek for the corpse to allow them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.