local media reported on tuesday that a platinum mine collapsed in northwestern tanzania on friday , killing at least eighteen people . similar to reports , the attack occurred at geita district when the 100 - centimetres - deep shaft the miners were working in collapsed after being flooded by heavy seasonal rains . some media rumors say that eighteen more possible have been killed by the landslide . " i see there is no hope of finding anybody alive , " says kelega chacha , a miner who departed the site long before the mine ' s collapse . " we will just have to hunt for the bodies to give them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.