locally sources published on tuesday that a gold pit collapsed in northwestern tanzania on thursday , kills at least twenty people . based to accounts , the incident occurred at geita region because the 100 - metre - deeply shaft the miners were working in collapsed after being flooded by the seasonal snowfall . some official claims state that thirty more might have been killed by the accident . " i fear there is no hope of finding anybody alive , " said kelega chacha , a mine . left the site moments before the plant ' s collapse . " we will just have to look for the bodies to promise them a respectable burying . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.