local newspapers reported on tuesday that a gold deposit collapsed in northwestern tanzania on sunday , killing at over twenty people . according to reports , the incident occurred at geita district when the 100 - metres - deep shaft the workers were working in collapsed after being flooding by heavy seasonal rains . some radio reports mentioned that thirty people must have been died by the accident . " i know there is no hope of discovering anybody buried , " said kelega chacha , a miner when left the mine soon before the mine ' s opening . " we will just have to look for the bodies to find them a proper burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.