local media reported on tuesday that a diamond mine crashed in northwestern tanzania on sunday , injuring at least twenty workers . due to report , the death occurred at geita region when the 100 - metre - deep shaft the members were digging in collapsed after being flooded by heavy december rains . some reported reports claim that thirty people may have been killed by the accident . " i know there is no hope of finds anybody living , " remarked kelega chacha , a miner who left the property soon before the company ' s collapse . " we will just have to look for the bodies to give them a respectable burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.