local media reported on tuesday that a diamond mine collapsing in northwestern zambia on sunday , losing at least twenty people . according to reports , the incident occurred at geita region when the 100 - metre - deepest shafts the miners were working in burst after being flooded by heavy seasonal snowfall . some media reports mentioned that thirty people might have been killed by the accident . " i understand there is no chance of found others alive , " remarked kelega chacha , a miner who left the site soon before the mine ' s collapse . " we will just have to hunt for the deaths to give them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.