Nineteen civilians were killed in the massacre, and the attack was part of a larger spree by ISCAP against villages in Beni Territory.

The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was founded in Uganda in the 1990s, gaining prominence as an Islamist rebel group and conducting deadly attacks on civilians in the early 2010s.

[1] The group pledged bay'ah to the Islamic State in 2019 and began carrying out its first attacks under the ISCAP moniker months later.

[1] During the massacre, the ADF jihadists looted and burned homes in the village of Kasanzi near Virunga National Park.

[4][5] The next day, searches by authorities and the Red Cross discovered fourteen more bodies in fields surrounding the village.