local publications reported on tuesday that a gold mine exploded in northwestern tanzania on sunday , killing at least four employees . prior to report , the incident occurred at geita region when the 100 - kilometre - deep shaft the miners were work in collapsed after being filled by severe seasonal rains . some television reports say that twenty more might have been dead by the accident . " i say there is no hope of finding everybody living , " explained kelega chacha , a man who left the site soon before the mine ' s destruction . " we will just have to ask for the corpses to show them a better burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.