local media reported on monday that a gold mine collapsed in central tanzania on sunday , dead at least twelve individuals . according to reports , the incident occurs at geita region as the 100 - metre - deep shaft the miners were working in collapsed after being flooded by heavy seasonal snowfall . some police reports report that thirty people might have been killed by the accident . " i realize there is no hope of finding anybody nearby , " declared kelega chacha , a soldier who entered the region soon before the mine ' s collapse . " we will just have to look for the bodies to give them a normal life . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.