Kitaya massacre

Kitaya massacre
Part of Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
Location	Kitaya, Mtwara Region, Tanzania
Date	October 15, 2020
Deaths	20+
Perpetrator	ISCAP - Mozambique
No. of participants	300
Motive	Jihad

On October 15, 2020, militants from Al-Shabaab, the Islamic State – Central Africa Province's branch in Mozambique, 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.