From Reuters, USA
Reporting by George Obulutsa
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed in northwest Tanzania when the walls of a small gold mine collapsed, burying workers inside, local media said Tuesday.
Reports said the accident happened Sunday in Geita, Mwanza region, when the 100 meter (328 foot) deep pit they were working in was flooded by a heavy seasonal downpour. Some local media said more than 30 people might have been killed.
"I know there is no hope of finding anybody alive," Kelega Chacha, one miner who left the site just before the disaster, told the private daily Guardian newspaper. "We will just have to look for the bodies to give them a decent burial."
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