local media reported on tuesday that a gold mine collapsed in northwest tanzania on day , burying at least twenty more . related to rumours , the disaster commenced at geita region before the 100 - metre - wide shaft the miners were working in broke after being flooded by heavy monthly rains . some media sources say that thirty workers would have been killed by the accident . " i know there is no hope of containing anybody alive , " said kelega chacha , a miner who reached the site soon before the mine ' s destruction . " we will just have to wait for the bodies to given them a decent burial . "
Kelega Chacha died in the Geita region.