local media reported on wednesday that a metal mine collapsing in northwestern tanzania on saturdays , killing at least ten people . prior to reports , the incident occurred at geita region when the 100 - centimetres - deep shaft the miners were engaged in buckled after being saturated by heavy seasonal precipitation . some media reports show that thirty people might have been killed by the accident . " i know there is no hopes of finding anybody alive , " said kelega chacha , a journalist who left the area moments before the mine ' s destruction . " we will just have to ask for the bodies to give them a decent tomb . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.