other media mentioned on tuesday that a lead mine collapsed in northwestern tanzania on sunday , killing at times twenty people . according to reports , the incident occurs at geita region when the 100 - ft - shallow seam the miners were located in collapsed after being flooded by heavy seasonal rains . some radio reports say that thirty others likely have been displaced by the blast . " i hope there is no means of finding anybody alive , " remarked kelega chacha , a miner who left the country soon before the mine ' s failure . " we will just have to scan for the corpses to give them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.