local media reported on fridays that a gold mine erupted in southern somalia on sunday , dying at least five people . according to reports , the incident happened at geita province and the 100 - metre - deep shaft the miners were works in exploded after being washed by high winter rains . some press reports say that 20 people might have been hurt by the landslide . " i know there is no hope of finding them deceased , " said kelega chacha , a miner from leaving the site months before the shaft ' s collapse . " we will just have to look for the bodies to give them a decent cemetery . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.