foreign media reported on sunday that a nickel dam collapsed in northwestern tanzania on sunday , killing at least twenty people . according to reports , the incident occurring at geita region when the 100 - metre - deep shaft the women were working in collapsed after being flooded by heaviest seasonal rains . some media reports say that thirty people might have been killed by the explosions . " i know there is no record of finding people alive , " stated kelega chacha , a miner who left the site soon before the mine ' s destruction . " we will just have to look for the corpses to give them a decent buried . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.