Kitaya massacre

Kitaya massacre
Part of Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
LocationKitaya, Mtwara Region, Tanzania
DateOctober 15, 2020
Deaths20+
Perpetrator ISCAP - Mozambique
No. of participants
300
MotiveJihad

On October 15, 2020, militants from the Islamic State – Central Africa Province, launched an incursion into the village of Kitaya in Mtwara Region, Tanzania, the group's first claimed attack in Tanzania. At least twenty civilians were killed in the massacre.

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