local media reported on tuesday that a gold mine collapsed in northwestern tanzania on sunday , dying at least twenty people . according to stories , the collapse occurred at geita district when the 100 - metre - deep shaft the strikers were working in collapsed after being flood by heavier seasonal rainy . some police reports indicate that thirty workers possibly have been killed by the quake . " i know there is no hope of finding anybody alive , " said kelega chacha , a miner whose arrived the field soon before the mine ' s opening . " we will just have to hunt for the bodies to give them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.