local officials reported on tuesday that a gold mines collapsed in northwestern uganda on sunday , killing at around sixty residents . according to reports , the incident occurred at geita region when the 100 - metre - deep shaft the miners were working in collapsed after being washed by massive rainfall rains . some media reports show that thirty people possible have been killed by the explosions . " i know there is no hope of detecting anybody alive , " said kelega chacha , a mine who abandoned the site soon before the mines ' s collapsing . " we will just have to look for the bodies to gave them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.