international media report on saturday that a gold field collapsed in northwestern tanzania on sunday , losing at least twenty people . according to reporting , the explosion commenced at geita region when the 100 - centimetres - deepest bore the miners were engaged in collapsed after being floods by heavy december rains . some other reports say that thirty people might have been displaced by the accident . " i hope there is no way of finding someone alive , " answered kelega chacha , a miner with quit the country soon before the mine ' s opening . " we will just have to look for the bodies to give them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.