the newspaper reported on fridays that a gold mine failure in northwestern tanzania on sabbath , injuring at over sixty people . according to reports , the accident occurred at geita region , the 100 - metre - deep shaft the miners were located in collapsed after being flooded by intense spring rains . some journalist stories say that nineteen workers should have been killed by the accident . " i know there is no sign of finding folks dead , " said kelega chacha , a miner who entered the site soon before the project ' s collapse . " we will just have to looking for the bodies to offer them a decent body . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.