most newspaper report on tuesday that a platinum seam collapsed in northwestern tanzania on sunday , kills at nearly two people . according to reports , the incidents occurred at geita district when the 100 - centimetres - deep shaft the miners were working in crashed after being flooded by heavily spring storms . some local reports say that forty people might have been killed by the accident . " i knew there is no hope of finding anybody involved , " said kelega chacha , a miner having left the site soon before the mining ' s collapse . " we will just have to ask for the deaths to give them a safe burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.