various media reported on tuesday that a gold mine collapsed in northwestern tanzania on day , killing at over twenty men . prior to media , the incident occurred at geita region when the 100 - metre - deep chamber the miners were working in collapsed after being flooded by light annual snowfall . some media reports said that thirty people might have been killed by the accident . " i know there is no hope of seeing anybody alive , " said kelega chacha , a miner . leaving the surface shortly before the company ' s collapse . " we will just have to look for the bodies to give them a decent funeral . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.